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Actor Arashi Kitsusaburô I (Rikan) in the dressing room mirror, with wigs and makeup for various roles, from an untitled series of five


初代嵐橘三郎(嵐璃寛)の鬘合
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1821 (Bunsei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 24.5 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35388
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), #090; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #66
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35388, 11.35393
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.