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Actors Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Sankichi (R) and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Kuranosuke (L)


「三吉 実川延三郎 三」 「蔵之助 嵐吉三郎 四」
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 24.5 x 35.6 cm (9 5/8 x 14 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36100a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 117; Kitagawa, ed., Kamigata yakusha-e gacho (2006), #61; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #177 (complete tetraptych)
DescriptionTwo left sheets of an incomplete tetraptych.

Play: Keisei Somewaketazuna
Theater: Naka
けいせい染分繮

Signed Yoshitaki hitsu (on right sheet), Yoshitaki ga (on left sheet)
芳瀧筆 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.