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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Tashiro Yasubei


「田代安兵衛 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Toyokawa Hikokuni (Japanese, active 1821–1824)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 26.4 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35103
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 92
DescriptionPlay: Ôishi-zuri Sakura Tanzaku
Theater: Naka
大石摺桜花短冊(おおいしずりさくらたんざく)

Signed Hikokuni ga
彦国画
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.