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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Asahina Saburô


「朝ひな三郎 中むら歌右衛門」
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1832 (Tenpô 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 25.7 cm (14 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35187
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 100; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #289; Keyes 1973, #156 and pl. 42
DescriptionPlay: Hônen Uruoi Soga
Theater: Kado
豊歳潤曽我

Signed Shunkôsai Hokuei ga
春江斎北英画
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.