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Actor Ichikawa Udanji I as Kainosuke, No. 3 from the series Thirty-six Views of Japan (Nihon sanjûrokkei no uchi)


「日本三十六景ノ内 三」 「甲斐之助 市川右団次」(初代)
Shûgansai Shigehiro (Japanese, active 1865–1878)
Publisher: Tamanoi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1873 (Meiji 6), February

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24 x 17.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36187
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 121
DescriptionProbably the left sheet of an incomplete diptych.

Play: Keisei Nazuna no Sekku
Theater: Kado
けいせい薺佳節(けいせいなづなのせっく)

Signed Shigehiro ga
重広画
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.