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Jiang Shi (Kyô Shi): (Actor Bandô Shûka I as) Kuzunoha, from the series Matches for the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Mitate nijûshi kô)


「見立廿四孝 姜詩(きやうし)」「葛の葉」初代坂東しうか
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.2 x 23.8 cm (13 7/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36633
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 201-4274
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, Tiger 10
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、寅十
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.