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Actors Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Seki Sanjûrô III, and Ichikawa Komazô VII as Police Officers (R) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sanshichirô Yoshitaka (L)


捕手 四代目市川小団次、三代目関三十郎、七代目市川高麗蔵  「三七郎義孝」八代目市川団十郎
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Mitaya Kihachi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Nakamura Tôkichi (Hori Me-Tô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.1 x 49.8 cm (14 3/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38315a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kuniyoshi Project db
DescriptionPlay: Kozotte Kuruwa Mimasu no Date-zome
Theater: Nakamura


襷廓三升伊達染
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Ox 2
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Me-Tô
改印:福、村松、丑二
彫師:彫目藤
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.