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正札付俳優手遊（しやうふだつきひゐきのおもちや）
Toys with Actors' Faces, the Genuine Article (Shôfuda tsuki hiiki no omocha)
正札付俳優手遊（しやうふだつきひゐきのおもちや）
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 11th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.8 cm (14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37658
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Mem. Mus., Warau ukiyo-e (2013), #143 (complete triptych, with this sheet on the left); Museum of Kyoto, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ten (2001), #51 (complete triptych); Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #138 (complete triptych)
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych; title on right sheet.
Signed
Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga
一魁斎芳年画
一魁斎芳年画
Marks
Censor's seal: Chicken 11 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：酉十一改
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：酉十一改
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.
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.