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Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Fisherman (Ryôshi) Fukahichi


「りゃうしふか七 あらし璃珏」(二代目)
Gochôtei Sadahiro (Japanese, active about 1830–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
1839 (Tenpô 10), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 26 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36472
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 103
DescriptionPlay: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
Theater: Kado
妹背山婦女庭訓(いもせやまおんなてくん)

Signed Gochôtei Sadahiro
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.