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Actor Ichikawa Danzô V as the Fisherman (Ryôshi) Fukashichi


「漁師ふか七 市川団蔵」(五代目)
Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Japanese
Edo period
1826 (Bunsei 9), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.7 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36260
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 95; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #124
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete diptych. This is the 3rd state; the blocks were recycled from a performance of 1821.3. 11.36273 is the right sheet of the 1821 first edition.

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
Theater: Naka
妹背山婦女庭訓(いもせやまおんなていきん)

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.