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Gathering Blossoms: Returning Sails at Fukagawa (Hana o tsumu, Fukagawa no kihan): Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as a Boatman (Sendô), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Azuma hakkei no uchi)


「花を積 深川の帰帆」 「東八景ノ内 中村歌右衛門」(四代目中村歌右衛門の舟頭)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1839 (Tenpô 10), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 25.7 cm (14 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39323
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay (shosa, finale of Part 2): Hanagoyomi Iro no Showake
Section of shosa: Minami ni Ate Hana ni Uku Takanawa ni Funanori no Kihan
Play (main feature): Iwai-uta Soga no Kaomise
Theater: Ichimura
花翫暦色所八景(はなごよみいろのしょわけ) 常磐津、長唄ヵ
離に当て花に浮高輪に船乗の帰帆(みなみにあてはなにうくたかなわにふなのりのきはん)
岩井歌曽我対面(いわいうたそがのかおみせ)
中村、二番目大切
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptions「花の過芝居して見よ不二つくは 琴詠舎」
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.