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Actors Arashi Rikaku II as the Servant (Jichô) Sakuramaru (R), Arashi Rikan III as Ki no Haseo (C), and Onoe Tamizô II as Kujaku Saburô (R), in Act 3 of Natane no Goku


「菜種御供 巻三」 「仕丁桜丸 嵐璃珏」(二代目)  「記ノ長谷雄 嵐璃寛」(三代目)  「孔雀三郎 尾上多見造」(二代目)
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 3rd 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 Number11.35800a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 111; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #589; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #213
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35800a-c, 11.41993a-c

Play: Tenmangû Natane no Goku
Theater: Kado
天満宮愛梅松桜(てんまんぐうあいじゅのめいぼく)

Signed Kunikazu (on left and right sheets 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.