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Actors Onoe Kikugorô III as Shizuka Gozen (R) and Nakamura Utaemon III as the Fox Tadanobu (L)


「静御前 尾上菊五郎」(三代目) 「狐忠信 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Ryûsai Shigeharu (Japanese, 1803–1853)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.2 × 51 cm (14 5/8 × 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36220a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 178; Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 98; Schwaab, Osaka Prints (1989), #141
DescriptionPlay: Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura (The Thousand Cherry Trees of Yoshitsune)
Theater: Kado
義経千本桜(よしつねせんぼんざくら)

Signed Gyokuryûtei Shigeharu ga (on each sheet)
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.