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Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (R), Bandô Shûka I as Shizuka Gozen (C), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Fox Genkurô (Genkurô-gitsune) (L)


「源よしつね」八代目市川団十郎  「しづか御せん」初代坂東しうか  「源九郎 狐」四代目市川小団次
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period
1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.5 x 74 cm (14 3/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38498a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionUnidentified publisher's mark.

Play (second feature): Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura
Play (main feature): Mukashi-gatari Inazuma-zôshi
Theater: Ichimura
義経千本桜(よしつねせんぼんざくら)
昔語稲妻帖(むかしがたりいなずまぞうし)
市村、二番目
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、村田
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.