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風流六歌仙 「なり平」四代目中村歌右衛門
Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Narihira in The Fashionable Six Poetic Immortals (Fûryû Rokkasen)
風流六歌仙 「なり平」四代目中村歌右衛門
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 1st month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 25.5 x 18.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35607
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)
DescriptionOne sheet of an incomplete hexaptych.
MFA 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
The Ikeda bunko impression has no publisher's mark for this print (other prints of the hexaptych have publisher's marks). The MFA impression has the Kawaoto publisher's mark.
六歌仙
中
MFA 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
The Ikeda bunko impression has no publisher's mark for this print (other prints of the hexaptych have publisher's marks). The MFA impression has the Kawaoto publisher's mark.
六歌仙
中
Signed
Hirosada
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.