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Actor Seki Sanjûrô II as a Playboy (Daijin)


二代目関三十郎の大尽
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Japanese
Edo period
1827 (Bunsei 10), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.2 x 19.2 cm (10 5/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number50.24
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 96; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #521
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.

Play: Imayo Mitsu no Shishigashira
Theater: Kado
春陽三獅頭

Signed Gigadô Ashiyuki ga
戯画堂芦ゆき画
Provenance1950, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1950)