Scenes from Kabuki: Puppeteer, Benkei in the Boat (Kairaishi, Funa Benkei, Kabuki no utsushi-e), from the series The Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara, Part 2 (Seirô Niwaka, ni no kawari)

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Scenes from Kabuki: Puppeteer, Benkei in the Boat (Kairaishi, Funa Benkei, Kabuki no utsushi-e), from the series The Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara, Part 2 (Seirô Niwaka, ni no kawari)

「青楼仁和嘉　二の替り」　「くわいらいし　舟弁慶　歌舞伎の写画」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1795 (Kansei 7)

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

Dimensions Vertical aiban; 33 x 22.5 cm (13 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24

Accession Number54.269

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #449.1; Ukiyo-e shûka 13 (1981), Brussels fig. 86

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)