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Actors Nakamura Kanjaku II as Hosokawa Masafusa (R), Nakamura Tamashichi I as Oguri Sukeshige (C), and Kataoka Gadô II as Kazama Hachirô (L), in Oguri Monogatari


「細川政房 中村翫雀」(二代目)  「小栗助重 中むら玉七」(初代)  「風間八郎 片岡我童」(二代目) 「小栗物がたり」
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 25 x 54.6 cm (9 13/16 x 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35796a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 112; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #603
DescriptionPlay: Himekurabe Futaba Ezôshi
Theater: Chikugo
姫競双葉絵草子
筑後
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.