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Actors Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kanja Yoshitaka (R) and Ichikawa Ebijûrô IV as Takegawa Tadamasa (L), in Keisei Chôja Tsuribune


「けい城長者艦」 「冠者義高 市川海老蔵」(五代目)  「竹川正忠 市川鰕十郎」(四代目)
Gansuitei Yoshitoyo (Japanese, died 1866)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 25.2 x 36.1 cm (9 15/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36250a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 109
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Chôja Tsuribune
Theater: Naka
けいせい長者艦(けいせいちょうじゃつりふね)

Signed Yoshitoyo (on each sheet)
芳豊
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.