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Actors Ichikawa Ebizô V as Shigama Takubei, Actually (Jitsu wa) Teraoka Heiemon (R), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Oishi (L)


「飾間宅兵衛実ハ寺岡平右衛門 市川海老蔵」(五代目)  「おいし 尾上菊五郎」(三代目)
Utagawa Yoshimasa (Japanese, active about 1830–1860)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tōbei (Kinkōdō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1833 (Tenpô 4), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.3 x 51.7 cm (14 5/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37305a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Theater: Kawarazaki
仮名手本忠臣蔵(かなでほんちゅうしんぐら)
河原崎
Signed Miura Yoshimasa ga (on each sheet)
三うら芳政画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.