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Actors Arashi Rikan III as Inusaka Keno (R) and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Inuta Kobungo (L) in Act 6 of the play Yatsu no Hanafusa


「犬坂毛の 嵐りくわん」 「犬田小文五 嵐吉三郎」 「八花魁 幕之六」
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 24.5 x 36.7 cm (9 5/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35786a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 109; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #547
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Yatsu no Hanafusa
Theater: Kado
けいせい八花魁

Signed Kunikazu (on each sheet)
国員
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.