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The Syllable Sa: Actor Ichikawa Udanji I as Hayae Inuchiyo, from the series Actors Matched with Proverbs for the Kana Syllabary (Mitate iroha tatoe)


「見立いろはたと画 さ 早枝犬千代 市川右団二」(初代)
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1867 (Keiô 3), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.5 x 18.3 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35494
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 120; the series: Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #238 (illustrates no and ya only)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35494, 11.35495

Play: Ume no Sakigake Nochi no Hanafusa
Theater: Kado
梅魁後花総(うめのさきがけのちのはなふさ)

Signed Yoshitaki ga
芳瀧画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.