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Actors Arashi Rikan II and Sawamura Kunitarô II


「あらし璃寛」(二代目)、 「沢村国太郎」(二代目)
Ryûsai Shigeharu (Japanese, 1803–1853)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25 cm (14 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36205
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 97; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #125
DescriptionOne sheet of an incomplete tetraptych.
春遊見立七福神
見立
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.