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Actors Arashi Kichisaburô II as the Courier Chûji, Matsushimaya Shimamatsu I as Hyakumatsu, and Asao Asajirô I as Kurakichi


「飛脚仲二 嵐吉三郎」(二代目)、「百松 松島屋島松」(初代)、「くら吉 浅尾朝次郎」(初代)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1820 (Bunsei 3), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 25.8 cm (14 13/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35384
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 89; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #086
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22662, 11.35384

Play: Toki ni Saikô Ariwara Keizu
Theater: Kitahorie
時再興在原系図(ときにさいこうありわらけいず)
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.