Actor Nakamura Takesaburô I as a Woman Holding a Branch of Plum Blossoms – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actor Nakamura Takesaburô I as a Woman Holding a Branch of Plum Blossoms

Actor Nakamura Takesaburô I as a Woman Holding a Branch of Plum Blossoms

梅の枝を持つ初代中村竹三郎

Torii Kiyomasu II (Japanese, 1706–1763)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1724 (Kyôhô 9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa

Dimensions Hosoban; 31.5 x 15.3 cm (12 3/8 x 6 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.5435

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 87, #2

DescriptionThe actor's mon appears on the Chicago impression, on the sleeves of the kimono, covered with a painted black jacket in this impression. The face appears to have been replaced.

Signed Torii Kiyomasu hitsu
鳥居清倍筆

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#194); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.