Actors Asao Okuyama II, from Edo, and Nakamura Karoku I Entering the Theater (Nobori Asao Okuyama Nakamura Karoku gakuya iri no zu)

「登り　浅尾奥山　中村歌六　楽屋入の図」（二代目浅尾奥山、初代中村歌六）

Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Publisher: Ariwaradô Chûbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1821 (Bunsei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.36236

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 89; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #313 (R sheet only); Keyes 1973, p. 252 (descrbed but not illustrated)

DescriptionForms a diptych: 11.36240 (R) and 11.36236 (L).
Possibly from the same series: 11.22632, by Yoshikuni, and 11.36194, by Shibakuni.
Theater: Kado
楽屋入の図
角

Signed Yoshikuni ga
よし国画

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.