Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as the Dancer Tsumagiku, Actually the Spirit of a Spider, and Onoe Matsusuke I as Usui Sadamitsu – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as the Dancer Tsumagiku, Actually the Spirit of a Spider, and Onoe Matsusuke I as Usui Sadamitsu

Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as the Dancer Tsumagiku, Actually the Spirit of a Spider, and Onoe Matsusuke I as Usui Sadamitsu

三代瀬川菊之丞の舞子妻菊実ハ女郎蜘の精、初代尾上松助の臼井貞光

Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)

Japanese

Edo period

1781 (An'ei 10/Tenmei 1), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical aiban; 33.4 x 23.3 cm (13 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4280

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e zenshû 5 (1957), fig. 29

DescriptionPlay (kaomise): Shitennô Tonoi no Kisewata
Theater: Nakamura
四天王宿直着綿（してんのうとのいのきせわた）
中村

Signed Shunshô ga
春章画

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#165); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.