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Actors Onoe Tamizô II as Hyôbunosuke (R) and Arashi Rikaku II as Tanigorô (L)


「兵部之助 尾上多見蔵」(二代目)  「谷五郎 嵐璃珏」(二代目)
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 25 x 37 cm (9 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37057a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 112; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #594
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.37057a-b, 11.41982a-b

Play: Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
Theater: Kado
碁太平記白石噺

Signed Kunikazu (on each sheet)
国員
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.