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Actor Onoe Tamizô II as a Lion in Shakkyô, and as a Chinese (Karabito) (inset)


「唐人 からしゝ石橋  尾上多見蔵」(二代目)
Gayûken Shun'ô (Japanese, active about 1827–1831)
Japanese
Edo period
1831 (Tenpô 2), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.5 x 26 cm (15 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35236
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 99
DescriptionPlay: Kotobuki Shikisan
Theater: Naka
寿式三(ことぶきしきさん)

Signed Gayûken Shun'ô ga
画遊軒春王画
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.