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Actor Nakamura Shikan II as a Grasscutter (Mokusôkari), from the Dance Number Moon, Snow, and Flowers (Tsuki yuki hana shosagoto no uchi)


「月雪花 所作事の内 木草かり 中村芝翫」(二代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyūdō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830 (Bunsei 13), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 × 26.3 cm (14 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38722
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ritsumeikan db: arcUY0256
DescriptionScene: Tokusagari
Play (shosa; finale of Part 2): Tsuki to Yuki Hana no Sekinoto
Play (main feature): Imoseyama Onna Teikin
Theater: Nakamura
木賊刈(とくさがり)
月雪花関扉(つきとゆきはなのせきのと)、長唄
妹背山婦女庭訓(いもせやまおんなていきん)、二番目大切
中村
文政13(1830)・ 08・01
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
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.