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Actor Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Saitô Kuranosuke


「斉藤内蔵之介 市川鰕十郎」(初代)
Ganjôsai Kunihiro (Japanese, active about 1815–1843)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban, left sheet of diptych; 38.4 x 26.2 cm (15 1/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36015
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg, Schätze der Kamigata (exh. cat., 2012), #411; Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 91; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #113
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.36015 (left sheet only), 11.36040a-b (complete diptych)

Play: Keisei Somewake Tazuna
Theater: Naka
けいせい染分総(けいせいそめわけたずな)

Signed Ganjôsai Kunihiro ga
丸丈斎国広画
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.