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Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as an Echigo Lion Dancer (Echigo jishi) and a Palace Servant (Jichô), from the series Dance of Seven Changes, a Farewell Performance (Onagori shosagoto nanabake no uchi)


「御名残所作事七変化ノ内 越後獅子 仕丁 中村歌右衛門」(四代目)
Hasegawa Sadanobu I (Japanese, 1809–1879)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1838 (Tenpô 9), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.8 cm (14 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36461
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), #015; Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #38-23-3
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.36461, 17.3213.7

Play: Furumekashi Naredo Yahari Nanabake
Theater: Naka
昔慕やはり七化(ふるめかしなれどやはりななばけ)

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.