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Actors Kataoka Gadô II as Aunt (Oba) Omie (R) and Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Fukuoka Mitsugi (L), from the middle act of Iseondo


「伊勢おんど 中」 「伯母おみね」二代目片岡我童 「福岡貢」初代実川延三郎
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 24.5 x 36.6 cm (9 5/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35791a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 118; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #632
DescriptionPlay: Iseondo Koi no Netaba
Theater: Naka

MFA impressions: 11.35791a-b (with no publishers' marks), 11.41986a-b (with no publishers' marks)
Reprint of a design from 1852; see 11.35619a-b and 11.35620a-b

伊勢音頭恋寝剣

Signed Kunikazu (on right sheet only)
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.