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Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Kenkaya Goroemon


「喧嘩や五郎右衛門 市川団十郎」 (七代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyūdō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 26 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30330
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPossibly from an untitled series, with 49.1290 .

Play (second feature, opening): Kasa no Yoru Nigao no Irodori
Play (main feature): Kabuki no Haru Soga no Kakizome
Theater: Nakamura

寄笠極彩色(かさによるにがおのいろどり)
劇場春曽我書初(かぶきのはるそがのかきぞめ)
中村、二番目序幕
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.