Actors Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yamabayashi Fusahachi and Nakamura Shibajûrô as Kajikurô, from the series Actors Imagined as the Eight Dog Heroes (Mitate haiyû hakkenshi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actors Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yamabayashi Fusahachi and Nakamura Shibajûrô as Kajikurô, from the series Actors Imagined as the Eight Dog Heroes (Mitate haiyû hakkenshi)

Actors Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yamabayashi Fusahachi and Nakamura Shibajûrô as Kajikurô, from the series Actors Imagined as the Eight Dog Heroes (Mitate haiyû hakkenshi)

「俳優八犬士」　「山林房八　坂東彦三郎」（四代目）、「山林房八　中村芝十郎」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kagaya Kichiemon (Kichibei) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35 x 24 cm (13 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.38087

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

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.