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Actor Arashi Kichisaburô II as Nippondaemon


「日本歌右衛門 嵐吉三郎」(二代目)
Baien (Japanese, active 1819)
Japanese
Edo period
1819 (Bunsei 2), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 25.8 cm (14 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38809
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 89; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #124
DescriptionA different (later?) edition of the center sheet of a triptych co-designed with Hokushû.

MFA impressions:
Complete triptych, by Baien and Hokushû: 11.35419-21
Center sheet only, by Baien (different edition): 11.35107, 11.38809

Play: Tôtomigata Koi no Shiranami
Theater: Naka
遠江潟恋賊(とうとうみがたこいのしらなみ)

Signed Baien sha
楳莚写
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.