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Actors Arashi Rikan III as the Farmer (Hyakushô) Gosaku (R) and Arashi Rikaku II as Kobuna Gegorô (L), in Keisei Setsugekka


「契情雪月花」 「百姓五作 嵐璃寛」(三代目)  「小鮒源五郎 嵐璃珏」(二代目)
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 24.2 x 36.2 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36091a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 113; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #078
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Setsugekka
Theater: Chikugo
けいせい雪月花(けいせいせつげつか)
筑後
Signed Yoshitaki ga (on each sheet)
芳瀧画
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.