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Actor Ichikawa Ebijûrô IV as Ebizako no Jû, in Keisei Setsugekka


「けいせい 雪月華」  「ゑびざこの十」 四代市川鰕十郎
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.4 x 18.4 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35534
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 110; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #15
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Setsugekka
Theater: Naka
安政5年1月、大坂、中の芝居「けいせい雪月花」。役割番付によると、ゑびざこの十の職業は髪結(かみゆい)である。 -- 武藤 純子K
Signed Ichiyôsai Yoshitaki
一養斎芳瀧
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.