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Acrobats Hanatake Seikichi and Hanatake Torakichi from Osaka, Performing on the Precincts of the Ekô-in in Honjo


「本所回向院境内」 「大阪下り 花竹清吉 花竹虎吉」
Utagawa Sadafusa (Japanese, active 1825–1850)
Publisher: Isechô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.5 x 39 cm (10 7/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37226
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kitchôrô Sadafusa ga
橘蝶楼貞房画
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.