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Flowers (Hana): Actor Asao Daikichi I as Kanja Tameyoshi in Irokurabe Kokonoe Nishiki, from the series Flowers and Birds, Wind and Moon (Kachô fûgetsu no uchi)


「花鳥風月之内 華 色競九重錦」  「冠者為よし」 初代浅尾大吉
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.1 x 18.4 cm (9 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35514
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 114; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #106
DescriptionPlay: Irokurabe Kokonoe Nishiki
Theater: Kado
文久1年8月、大坂、角の芝居、前狂言「色競九重錦」。「花鳥風月」と題された中判錦絵4枚組の1図。 -- 武藤 純子K
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.