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「大日本六十余州 薩摩」 「源五兵衛」初代実川延三朗、「きくの」二代目中山南枝
Satsuma Province: (Actors Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as) Gengobei and (Nakayama Nanshi II as) Kikuno, from the series The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nippon rokujû yo shû)
「大日本六十余州 薩摩」 「源五兵衛」初代実川延三朗、「きくの」二代目中山南枝
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; 17.8 x 25 cm (7 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37869
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: Godairiki Koi no Fujime
五大力恋緘（ごだいりきこいのふうじめ）
五大力恋緘（ごだいりきこいのふうじめ）
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.