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Actors Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as the Courtesan (Keisei) Tamagiku (R) and Nakamura Shikan IV as Kibun Daijin (L)


「けいせい玉菊 市村羽左衛門」(十三代目)  「紀文大人 中村芝翫」(四代目)
Ôsai Baiji (Japanese, active 1850s–60s)
Publisher: Shimizuya Naojirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36 x 52 cm (14 3/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37208a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Tamuke no Shikishi Kakitsu no Futsutsuka
Theater: Ichimura
法四季紙家橘拙(たむけのしきしかきつのふつつか)
市村
文久02 (1862)・08
Signed Ôsai ga (on each sheet)
桜斎画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
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.