Wood: Longing for Yasusada (Yasusada no shitagawashiki); Actor Iwai Kumesaburô III as Komachi-hime, from the series Collection of Exemplars of the Five Elements (Nazorae gogyô zukushi no uchi)

「擬五行尽之内　安貞の幕し木　小町姫」三代目岩井粂三郎

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 24 cm (13 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number49.1776

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan, ed., Zusetsu mitate to yatsushi (2008), p. 47, cat. no. 38

Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、村田、子八
彫師：なし

Provenance1949, gift of Porter Sargent to the MFA.