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Actors Nakamura Tamasuke I as Sano no Genzaemon (R) and Nakamura Tomijûrô II as the Ghost of Shirotae (L)


「佐野の源左衛門 中村玉助」 「先の白たゑ亡霊 中村富十郎」
Hasegawa Sadanobu I (Japanese, 1809–1879)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1837 (Tenpô 8), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.5 x 51.8 cm (14 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36449a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 103; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #011
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.36449a-b, 11.36450a-b

Play: Kaikei Yuki no Hachinoki
Theater: Naka
会稽雪鉢木

Signed Hasegawa Sadanobu ga
長谷川貞信画
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.