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Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Jiraiya and Bandô Muraemon I (?) as Yakama Shikaroku, from the series Matches for Thirty-six Selected Poems (Mitate sanjûrokku sen)


「見立三十六句撰」 「児雷也」八代目市川団十郎、「やかま鹿六」初代坂東村右衛門ヵ
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Other artist: Miyagi Gengyo (Japanese, 1817–1880)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35 x 24 cm (13 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30029
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Osaka Castle Museum, Mitate no sekai (exh. cat., 2004), #34
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.25087, 11.30013, 11.30023, 11.30029, 11.30076
Signed Utagawa Toyokuni ga; (seal of Gengyo on inset)
歌川豊国画、(玄魚の印)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 11
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、辰十一
彫師:なし
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.