Actors Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Saigyô Viewing Mount Fuji (above), Ichikawa Kuzô II as a Footman (Yakko) with a Black Kite (tobi, tonbi) Stealing a Fish (below right), and Iwai Kumesaburô III (or Onoe Baikô IV?) as a Woman of Ôhara (below left)

富士見西行（五代目沢村長十郎）、鳶に鰹をさらわれる奴（二代目市川九蔵）、大原女（三代目岩井粂三郎ヵ）

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Fusajirô (Horikô Fusajirô, Hori Fusa) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 23.5 cm (14 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.36716

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPossibly the center sheet of a triptych, 11.36715-7 (no virtual record).

Signed Kuniyoshi (on top and bottom right designs), Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi (on bottom left design)
国芳、一勇斎国芳

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Fusajirô
改印：米良、村田
彫師：彫工房次郎

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.