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Five Actors as the Five Manly Men (Gonin Otoko): Kataoka Nizaemon VII as An no Heibei, Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Karigane Bunshichi, Asao Kuzaemon I as Kaminari Shôkurô, Asao Yûjirô I as Gokui Sen'emon, and Nakamura Utaemon III as Hotei Ichiemon


「五人男」 七代目片岡仁左衛門のあんの平へ、初代市川鰕十郎のかりがね紋七、初代浅尾工左衛門のかみなりの庄九郎、初代浅尾勇次郎のこくゐの千右衛門、三代目中村歌右衛門のほていの市右衛門
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yamaichi (Japanese)
Printer: Matsumura Kinji (Japanese, active 1822–1826)
Printer: Matsumura Kumaji (Japanese, active 1822)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5), 2nd 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 Number11.35342
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 92; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #119
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35342, 11.38941

Play: Otokodate Itsutsu Karigane
Theater: Naka
男作五雁金(おとこだていつつかりがね)

Signed Shunkôsai Hokushû ga
春好斎北洲画
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.