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Actor Sawamura Tosshô I as Teraoka Heiemon


「寺岡平右エ門 沢村訥升」(初代)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Wakamatsuya Yoshirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1835 (Tenpô 6), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.6 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39369
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Theater: Morita
仮名手本忠臣蔵(かなでほんちゅうしんぐら)
森田
1835、天保06、08・06
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.