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Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oniazami Seikichi (top) and Yanagibashi Ginpachi (bottom), from the series Women and Men in Twenty-odd Chapters of Genji (Meoto Genji nijûyo chô)


「女夫源氏二十余帖」「鬼薊清吉 市川小団次」(四代目)、「柳橋銀八」
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.9 × 24.7 cm (14 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39091
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kunichika ga (top image), Ôju Baichôrô Kunisada hitsu (bottom image)
国周画、応需梅蝶楼国貞筆
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 7 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Shige
改印:丑七改
彫師:彫工繁
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.