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Actors Ichikawa Danzô VI as the Mother (Haha) Man'e (R), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Soga Gorô (C), and Kataoka Gadô II as Soga Jûrô (L), in Act 7 of Soga Monogatari


「曽我物語 巻ノ七」 「母万江」六代目市川団蔵  「曽我五郎」五代目市川海老蔵  「曽我十郎」二代目片岡我童
Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 26 x 55 cm (10 1/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35600a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 108; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #508
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Soga Haru no Fujigane
Theater: Kado

The Ikeda bunko impression has Kinkadô Konishi publisher's mark. The MFA impression has Tenmaya Kihei publisher's mark.
景清曽我賑不尽

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.