Actor Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki, from the series Mirrors for Collage Pictures in the Modern Style (Imayô oshi-e kagami)

「今様押絵鏡　梶原平三景時」　初代中村鶴蔵

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirō (Shōrindō) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)

Japanese

Edo period

1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 2nd month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 26.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number50.2328

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), p. 287; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 5, Victoria and Albert Museum II (1987), fig. 19 (actor identified as Seki Sanjûrô III)

DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.803 (without blockcutter's mark), 50.2328 (with blockcutter's mark)

Play: Kinpeibai Soga no Tamamono
Theater: Nakamura
金瓶梅曽我松賜（きんぺいばいそがのたまもの）
中村
1860、安政０７

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

Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Yokokawa Hori Take
改印：申二改
彫師：横川彫竹

Inscriptions「初東風や拈艸おから踏こゝろ　秀雀」