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Earth (Tsuchi): Actor Nakamura Kanjaku II as Kamiya Iemon in Yotsuya Kaidan, in the Summer Program (Bongawari) at the Chikugo Theater, from an untitled series of the Five Elements (?)


「筑後 盆替り 四谷怪談」 五行 「土」 「神谷伊右衛門 中村翫雀」(二代目)
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; 24.2 x 18.3 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35991
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 113
DescriptionPlay: Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan
Theater: Chikugo
東海道四谷怪談(とうかいどうよつやかいだん)
筑後
Signed Munehiro
宗広
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.