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Actor Arashi Rikan II as Oguri Hankan Kaneuji


「小栗半官兼氏 嵐璃寛」(二代目)
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1833 (Tenpô 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 x 25.6 cm (14 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38793
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 100
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 11.35217-9 (complete), 11.38793 (center sheet only; color variation)

Play: Himekurabe Futaba Ezôshi
Theater: Naka
姫競双葉絵草紙(ひめくらべふたばえぞうし)

Signed Shunkôsai Hokuei ga
春江斎北英画
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.