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「風流六歌仙」 「へん正」四代目中村歌右衛門 「康秀」四代目中村歌右衛門 「喜せん」四代目中村歌右衛門 「小町」二代目中山南枝 「なり平」四代目中村歌右衛門 「黒ぬし」四代目中村歌右衛門
The Fashionable Six Poetic Immortals (Fûryû Rokkasen), from right: Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Bishop Henjô, Bun'ya no Yasuhide, and Priest Kisen; Nakayama Nanshi II as Ono no Komachi; and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ariwara Narihira and Ôtomo Kuronushi
「風流六歌仙」 「へん正」四代目中村歌右衛門 「康秀」四代目中村歌右衛門 「喜せん」四代目中村歌右衛門 「小町」二代目中山南枝 「なり平」四代目中村歌右衛門 「黒ぬし」四代目中村歌右衛門
Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 1st month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban hexaptych; 25 x 109.3 cm (9 13/16 x 43 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35606a-f
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 108; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #425; Keyes, PMA cat. (1973), #119 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 08.541.6a-b (4 and 5 only), 11.35606a-f (complete hexaptych), 11.35607 (5 only), *11.41973a-b (1 and 2 only; deaccessioned in 2019), 11.41998a-f (complete hexaptych)
Play: Rokkasen
Theater: Naka
六歌仙
中
Play: Rokkasen
Theater: Naka
六歌仙
中
Signed
Hirosada (on each sheet)
広貞
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.
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.