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Actors Nakayama Shinan and Arashi Mitsugorô as Spirits of Mandarin Ducks (Oshidori no seirei)


「おし鳥の精霊 中山南枝」  「おし鳥の精霊 あらし三五郎」
Gochôtei Sadahiro (Japanese, active about 1830–1850)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1837 (Tenpô 8), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.5 x 51 cm (14 3/4 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36467a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 102
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Imose no Oshidori
けいせい妹背(けいせいいもせのおしどり)
Signed Gochôtei Sadahiro (on each sheet)
五蝶亭貞広
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.