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Actors in Imagined Roles (Mitate): Arashi Rikan II as Kagekiyo (R) and Nakamura Utaemon III as a Footman (Yakko) (L)


「見立 景清 嵐璃寛」(二代目)  「見立 奴 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Gochôtei Sadamasu I (Kunimasu) (Japanese, active 1834–1852)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835 (Tenpô 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.3 x 50.9 cm (14 11/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36004a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 101
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Hangonkô
Theater: Kado
傾城反魂香(けいせいはんごんこう)

Signed Utagawa Sadamasu ga (on each sheet)
歌川貞升画
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.