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Actors, from right: Bandô Hikosaburô V as Kinshôjo, Arashi Kichisaburô III as Kanki, Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Watônai, and Bandô Kamezô as Watônai's mother, in Kokusenya Kassen


「国性爺合戦」「錦生女 坂東彦三郎」(五代目)  「かんき 嵐吉三郎」(三代目)  「和藤内 実川延三郎」(初代)  「母 坂東亀蔵」
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban tetraptych; 25.1 × 72.3 cm (9 7/8 × 28 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35505a-d
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 111; Kitagawa, ed., Kamigata yakusha-e gacho (2006), #46; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #028
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35505a-d, 11.41977a-c (three right sheets only)

Play: Kokusen'ya Kassen (The Battles of Coxinga)
Theater: Naka
国性爺合戦( こくせんやかっせん)

Signed Yoshitaki ga (on R and CR), Yoshitaki (on CL), Ichiyôsai Yoshitaki ga (on L)
芳瀧画 芳瀧 一養斎芳瀧画
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.