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Actors Ichikawa Udanji I as Kojorô (R), Ichikawa Udanji I as Shiranui Daijin (C), and Arashi Dannosuke I as Kojorô (L), in the Play Shiranui Monogatari


「しらぬい物語」 「小女郎 市川右団次」(初代) 「白縫大尽 市川右団次」(初代) 「小女郎 嵐団之助」(初代)
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Publisher: Yaozen
Japanese
Meiji era
1874 (Meiji 7), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 24.2 x 53.4 cm (9 1/2 x 21 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36179a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 122; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #520
DescriptionPlay: Shikimoyô Shiranui Monogatari
Theater: Kado
四季模様白縫譚(しきもようしらぬいものがたり)

Signed Yoshitaki hitsu (on each sheet)
芳瀧筆
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.