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Actor Iwai Kumesaburô III as the Shirabyôshi Dancer Asakeno, Actually Inusaka Keno Tanutoshi, from the series The Book of the Eight Dog Heroes (Hakkenden inu no sôshi no uchi)


「八犬傳犬の冊子乃内 舞子朝毛野 実ハ犬坂毛野胤智(まいこあさけの じつはいぬさかけのたねとも)」 三代目岩井粂三郎
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.4 × 24.9 cm (14 5/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39155
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Hakkenden no sekai (2008), #65; Nihon no koten 16, Nansô Satomi Hakkenden (1976), p. 100
DescriptionNo. 18 of the Right group on the title page (11.39112).

For a painted copy of this print, see 11.39108.
Signed Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouche
国貞画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Rat 10
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印:福、村松、子十
彫師:彫竹
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.