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Actor Kataoka Gadô II as Hattori Kingorô


「服部金五郎 片岡我童」(二代目)
Ichiryûtei Toyohide (Japanese, active 1839–1863)
Publisher: Wataya Kihei (Wataki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1841 (Tenpô 12), 1st 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 Number11.35248
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 104; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #212
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Yanagizakura
Theater: Naka
けいせい楊柳桜(けいせいやなぎさくら)

Signed Kitagawa Toyohide ga
北川豊秀画
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.