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Actors Arashi Kichisaburô III as Ôtomo Kuronushi and Bandô Hikosaburô V as Ono no Komachi in Rokkasen (The Six Poetic Immortals)


「六歌仙」「大友黒主 嵐吉三郎」(三代目)、「小野小町 坂東彦三郎」(五代目)
Hasegawa Munehiro (Japanese, active 1848–1867)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.1 x 19.3 cm (9 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35982
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. 3 (2001), #341; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #221
DescriptionPlay: Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori
Theater: Naka
六歌仙体綵

Signed Munehiro ga
宗広画
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.