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Awaji Province: (Actor Bandô Hikosaburô V as) Wakaba Naishi, from the series The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nippon rokujû yo shû)


「大日本六十余州 淡路」 五代坂東彦三郎 「若ば内し」
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1862 (Bunkyû 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 17.7 x 24.5 cm (6 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37852
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 115; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #617
DescriptionPlay: Yoshitsune Senbonzakura
Imaginary performance (mitate)
義経千本桜(よしつねせんぼんざくら)
Signed Kunikazu
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.