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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as a Nine-tailed Fox, from the series Dance of Nine Changes (Kokonobake no uchi)


「九尾ノ狐 中村歌右ヱ門 九変化ノ内」 (三代目中村歌右衛門)
Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1825 (Bunsei 8), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.7 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36289
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 94; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #364; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #228; Keyes 1973, #375b, and pl. 29
DescriptionPlay: Yosete Aratani Kokonobake
Theater: Kado
日本新玉九尾化(よせてあらたにここのばけ)

Signed Jukôdô Yoshikuni ga
寿好堂よし国画
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.