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Actors Nakamura Komanosuke V as Ishikawa Goemon (top) and Mimasu Inemaru as Tairyô Hisayoshi (bottom) in Keisei Chigogafuchi


「石川五右衛門 中村駒之助」(五代目)  「大領久よし 三枡稲丸」
Nansuitei Yoshiyuki (Japanese, 1835–1879)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban, upright diptych; 49.5 x 18.3 cm (19 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36228a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 118
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Chigogafuchi
Theater: Horie
けいせい稚児淵(けいせいちごがふち)
堀江
Signed Yoshiyuki (on each sheet)
芳雪
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.