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Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV as Asamaemon (TR), Onoe Baikô IV as Umegae (TL), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Chienai (CR), Bandô Shûka I as Ushiwakamaru (CL), Onoe Kikujirô II as Oren (BR), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Matsuwakamaru (BL), from the series One Hundred Selected Portraits (Mitate hyakunin sô)


「見立百人相」「浅間左衛門」四代目中村歌右衛門、「梅ヶ枝」四代目尾上梅幸、「知恵内」十二代目市村羽左衛門、「牛若丸」初代 坂東しうか、「おれん」二代目尾上菊次郎、「松若丸」八代目市川団十郎
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.6 x 24.5 cm (14 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38413
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 005-0150
Signed Kuniyoshi ga (on each design)
国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
彫師:なし
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.