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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I, from the set Fashionable Firefly-hunting (Hotaru-gari fûzoku)


蛍狩当風俗 初代中村福助
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; about 38.1 x 25.4 cm (15 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29709
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), #60
DescriptionCenter right sheet of incomplete tetraptych.

MFA impressions: 11.29133 (center right sheet), *11.29709 (center right sheet; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.42145a-d (tetraptych), 11.42146 (left sheet)
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 3 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Yokokawa Hori Take
改印:申三改
彫師:横川彫竹
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.