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Actors Bandô Mitsugorô III as Tanizawa Naiki (R) and Arashi Koroku IV as the Haikai Poet (Haikaishi) Chiyo (L)


「谷沢内記 坂東三津五郎」(三代目)  「はいかい師千代 あらし小六」(四代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.7 x 51 cm (14 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36293a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 89; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #094
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35449-50, 11.36293a-b

Play: Keisei Kagamiyama
Theater: Kado
けいせい双鏡山(けいせいかがみやま)

Signed Shunkôsai Hokushû ga (on each sheet)
春好斎北洲画
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.