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Right (Migi, ichi): Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Abe no Yasuna, from the series Comparison of Current Roles on Fans (Uchiwa tôsei kurabe)


「安部保名 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)「団扇当世競」「右一」
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1824 (Bunsei 7), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35367
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 93; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #154; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #201; Schwaab, Osaka Prints (1989), #68
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35367, *11.38806 (deaccessioned in 2019)

Play: Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami
Theater: Kitahorie
芦屋道満大内鑑(あしやどうまんおおうちかがみ)
北堀江
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.