Actors Nakamura Kiyozô as Yaoya Oshichi and Onoe Kikugorô I as Kichisaburô – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actors Nakamura Kiyozô as Yaoya Oshichi and Onoe Kikugorô I as Kichisaburô

Actors Nakamura Kiyozô as Yaoya Oshichi and Onoe Kikugorô I as Kichisaburô

中村喜代蔵の八百屋お七、初代尾上菊五郎の吉三郎

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)

Japanese

Edo period

1740s

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

Dimensions 44.7 x 30.8 cm (17 5/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.7226

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Vergez, Early Ukiyo-e Master: Okumura Masanobu (1983), pl. 31; Michener, Floating World (1954), #35

Signed Hôgetsudô Tanchôsai Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu shôhitsu
方月堂丹鳥斎奥村文角政信正筆

ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.