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Actor Bandô Hikosaburô IV Greeting the Audience (Kôjô)


「四代目坂東彦三郎」 口上
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Kasuke (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.8 cm (14 15/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35350
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 97
DescriptionTheater: Naka
口上

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.