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「大日本六十余州 播磨」 「桃井若狭之助」二代目中村翫雀、「塩冶判官」初代中村玉七
Harima Province: (Actors Nakamura Kanjaku II as) Momonoi Wakasanosuke and (Nakamura Tamashichi I as) En'ya Hangan, from the series The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nippon rokujû yo shû)
「大日本六十余州 播磨」 「桃井若狭之助」二代目中村翫雀、「塩冶判官」初代中村玉七
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
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; 17.6 x 25 cm (6 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37856
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
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: Kanadehon Chûshingura
仮名手本忠臣蔵
仮名手本忠臣蔵
Signed
Kunikazu
国員
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.
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.