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Actor Bandô Hikosaburô V, from Edo (Edo nobori), Greeting the Audience (Habakarinagara kôjô)


「江戸登り五代目坂東彦三郎 乍憚口上」
Gansuitei Yoshitoyo (Japanese, died 1866)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.2 x 23.9 cm (13 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36248
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 110; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #470; Genshoku Ukiyo-e Dai Hyakka Jiten 2 (1982), #538
DescriptionTheater: Naka
Signed Ôju Yoshitoyo sha
応需芳豊写
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.