Actor Hayakawa Shinkatsu as the Courtesan Kojima (Keisei Kojima) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actor Hayakawa Shinkatsu as the Courtesan Kojima (Keisei Kojima)

Actor Hayakawa Shinkatsu as the Courtesan Kojima (Keisei Kojima)

「浮世歌念仏　けいせい小じま　早川新勝」

Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Publisher: Komatsuya (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1727 (Kyôho 12) OR 1732 (Kyôho 17), 11th month

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

Dimensions Hosoban; 31.9 x 15.3 cm (12 9/16 x 6 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8113

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1952; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 126; Ukiyo-e zenshû I (1957), fig. 58

DescriptionMutô dates the print to about 1727 (Kyôhô 12), but Ukiyo-e zenshû and Ukiyo-e shûka identify it as a kaomise play of 1732:

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Hiru ga Kojima
Theater: Ichimura
兵根元蛭小島（つわものこんげんひるがこじま）
市村

Signed Yamato gakô Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
大和画工　奥村利信筆

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (lot 388); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.