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Billboards with Actors' Crests (Mon-kanban), from the series Annual Events of the Theater in Edo (Ô-Edo shibai nenjû gyôji)


「大江戸しばゐねんぢうぎやうじ 紋看板」(おおえどしばいねんじゅうぎょうじ もんかんばん)
Adachi Ginkô (Japanese, 1853–1902)
Publisher: Hasegawa Sumi
Japanese
Meiji era
1897 (Meiji 30), July 25

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 24 cm (14 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Accession NumberRES.53.42
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom a series co-designed by Adachi Ginkô and Torii Kiyosada.
Signed Unsigned
無款
Provenance1953, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: March 12, 1953)