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Actor Nakamura Tamashichi I as Wankyû


椀久 中村玉七
Ittôsai Masunobu (Japanese, active 1849–1853)
Japanese
Edo period
1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.8 x 18.9 cm (10 3/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36090
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 105; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #242
DescriptionPlay: Chigusa no Midarezaki
Theater: Chikugo

No publisher's mark on this impression
千種の乱咲
筑後
Signed Masunobu
升信
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.