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Actor Arashi Rikan III as Kiritarô in Hanabusa Zôshi


「桐太郎 嵐璃寛」(三代目) 「英草紙」
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Bunsei 5), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.5 x 18.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35028
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 110; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #574; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #212
DescriptionUpper sheet of an incomplete two-tier triptych.

Play: Keisei Hanabusa Zôshi
Theater: Kado
けいせい英草紙

Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 29, 2004)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.