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Designs of Modern Actors for Collage-picture Battledores (Tôsei yakusha oshi-e hagoita): Actors Nakamura Shikan II as Kagekiyo (R), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Suke no Tsubone (C), Sawamura Tosshô I as Yoshihisa (L)


「当盛役者押絵羽子板」 「かげきよ 中村芝翫」(二代目)、「すけのつぼね 岩井半四郎」(六代目)、「義久 沢村訥升」(初代)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1832 (Tenpô 3), 11th month (date of play)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26 x 37.3 cm (10 1/4 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38332
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Goban Tadanobu Yuki no Nachiguro
Theater: Nakamura
Date of production: 1832 (Tenpô 3), 11th month
碁盤忠信雪黒石(ごばんただのぶゆきのなちぐろ)
中村
1832、天保03、11・27
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each design)
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.