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Reconciliation Song of Arashi Kitsusaburô I (Rikan, right) and Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan, left)


「嵐橘三郎」(初代)、「中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Publisher: Ariwaradô Chûbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.1 x 26.4 cm (15 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38828
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 90; Gerstle 2005, #199; Kamigata yakusha-e no sekai (2001), #41; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #325
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.36259, 11.38828
Signed Yoshikuni ga
よし国画
Inscriptions「二上り 鶴たちはな 百き調 きいてかへゝ――― うわさのたちはな名物男でかたやなり。
羽をのす。鶴の。かたや。あらくれ男。うちませふしやんゝ―――。もひとつせいしやんゝ―――ねんのためほんきまりゝ―――てこれまでのりきみをながす大川へヱゝ出たわいなヲゝすずしやの」
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.