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Actors Mimasu Daigorô IV as Konishi Yajûrô (R), Nakayama Nanshi II as the Daughter (Musume) Otsuyu (C), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fukami Katsugorô (L), in Act 2 of Kiyome no Funauta


「清船諷 巻ノ弐」 「小西弥十郎」四代目三枡大五郎  「娘おつゆ」二代目中山南枝 「深見勝五郎」四代目中村歌右衛門
Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)
Japanese
Edo period
1851 (Kaei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 25.1 x 55.2 cm (9 7/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35581a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 106; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #338
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35581a-c, 11.41995a-c

Play: Keisei Kiyome no Funauta
Theater: Naka
けいせい清船諷(けいせいきよめのふなうた)

Signed Hirosada (on each sheet)
広貞
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.