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The Tenth Month: Actors Ichimura Uzemon XII as the God Ebisu and Nakamura Tsuruzô (?) as a Sea Bream (Tai); the Eleventh Month: Ôtani Hiroemon V as the Torinomachi Festival; the Twelfth Month: Sakata Sajûrô II as a Dried Salmon (Sake), from the series Clever Ideas in Gestures for the Twelve Months (Miburi jûni omoitsuki)


「見振(みぶり)十二思ひ月」 「十月 ゑびす」十二代目市村羽左衛門、「十月 たい」初代中村鶴蔵ヵ、「十一月 とりのまち」五代目大谷広右衛門、「十二月 鮭」二代目坂田佐十郎
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1847–48 (Kôka 4–Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36750
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tokyo Metropolitan LIbrary db 584-C7-4 (C584-C007-004); Inagaki, Edo no asobi-e (1988), #100
DescriptionFour sheets from a set of five: 11.36750 to 11.36753.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi kyôga
一勇斎国芳狂画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
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.