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Actor Sawamura Kunitarô II as the Fox (Kitsune) Kuzunoha


「狐くづの葉 沢村国太郎」
Ryûsai Shigeharu (Japanese, 1803–1853)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 25.2 cm (14 7/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36203
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 98; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #142; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #443
DescriptionCenter sheet of an incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 11.36203 (center sheet only), 11.36204a-c (complete triptych)

Play: Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami
Theater: Kado
芦屋道満大内鑑(あしやどうまんおおうちかがみ)

Signed Gyokuryûtei Shigeharu ga
玉柳亭重春画
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.