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Jiang Ge (Kô Kaku): (Actors Nakamura Fukusuke I as) Matagorô and (Iwai Kumesaburô III) as Hatsuhana, from the series Matches for the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Mitate nijûshi kô)


「見立廿四孝 江革」「勝五郎」初代中村福助、「初花」三代目岩井粂三郎
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 23.9 cm (13 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36632
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tokyo Metropolitan Library db 5714-C117
DescriptionImaginary performance (mitate).

No publisher's mark on this impression.
見立
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 6
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、卯六
彫師:なし
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.