Designs of Modern Actors for Collage-picture Battledores (Tôsei yakusha oshi-e hagoita): Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kidômaru (R), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Nanaaya (C), and Ichikawa Sumizô III as Kenmotsu (L) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Designs of Modern Actors for Collage-picture Battledores (Tôsei yakusha oshi-e hagoita): Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kidômaru (R), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Nanaaya (C), and Ichikawa Sumizô III as Kenmotsu (L)

Designs of Modern Actors for Collage-picture Battledores (Tôsei yakusha oshi-e hagoita): Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kidômaru (R), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Nanaaya (C), and Ichikawa Sumizô III as Kenmotsu (L)

「當盛役者押絵羽子板」　「鬼童丸　市川海老蔵」（五代目）、「七あや　岩井半四郎」（六代目）、「監もつ　市川寿美蔵」（三代目）

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1830s

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.8 x 37.3 cm (10 9/16 x 14 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.38336

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

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.