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Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VII as Sasaki Ganryu


「佐々木巌流 片岡仁左衛門」(七代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shioya Chôbei
Japanese
Edo period
1814 (Bunka 11), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 27 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38798
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 87; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #76
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35424-5 (complete diptych), 11.38798 (right sheet only)

Play: Katakiuchi Nitô Eiyûki
Theater: Naka
復讐二島英雄記(かたきうちにとうえいゆうき)

Signed Shunkô ga
春好画
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.