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Actor Segawa Kikunojô III in the Lion Dance (Shakkyô)


三代目瀬川菊之丞の石橋
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.2 x 24.6 cm (13 7/16 x 9 11/16 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 Number54.382
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #s 28, 29; Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #102, pl. 256; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 4 (1981), #218; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #117, pl. 182; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #878, pl. LXXXIV
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13916 (color), 54.382 (key block)

Play: Shakkyô no Shosa
Theater: Ichimura
石橋の所作(しゃっきょうのしょさ)
市村
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)