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Actors Nakamura Utaemon III as Akamatsu Enshin and Nakamura Utaya I as Kumawakamaru


「吉田文三郎三十三回忌追善」 「赤丸円心 中村歌右ヱ門」(三代目) 「熊若丸 中村歌雅弥」(初代)
Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Publisher: Ariwaradô Chûbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 26.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36257
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 90; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #328
DescriptionPlay: Akamatsu Enshin Midori no Jinmaku
Theater: Naka
赤松円心緑陣幕

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.