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Actors Nakamura Matsue III and Nakamura Sankô I Greeting the Audience (Kôjô)


口上 [中村松江」(三代目)、「中村さん光」(初代)
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Iden (Japanese, active 1820–1835)
Japanese
Edo period
1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 25.4 cm (14 3/4 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35190
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 98
DescriptionTheater: Miyajima
口上(こうじょう)
宮島
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.