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Actors Nakamura Sôjûrô as Kameya Chûbei (R) and Arashi San'emon X as Tsuchiya Umegawa (L) in Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai, No. 5 from the series Thirty-six Views of Japan (Nihon sanjûrokkei no uchi)


「恋飛脚大和往来」 「亀や忠兵へ 中村宗十郎」  「つちや梅川 嵐三右衛門」(十代目) 「日本三十六景ノ内 五」
Shûgansai Shigehiro (Japanese, active 1865–1878)
Publisher: Tamanoi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1873 (Meiji 6), April

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 24.2 x 35.7 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36188a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 121
DescriptionPlay: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
Theater: Chikugo
恋飛脚大和往来(こいびきゃくやまとおうらい)
筑後
Signed Shigehiro ga (on each sheet)
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.