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Actors Onoe Tamizô II as both Tenjiku Tokubei (TR) and the Carpenter (Daiku) Rokuza (BR), Arashi Kichisaburô III as the Footman (Yakko) Okahei (CR), Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Arakawa Uchikuranoshin (TL), and Onoe Eizaburô III as the Geisha Kashiku (BL)


「奴岡平 嵐吉三郎」(三代目)、「天竺徳米 大工六三 尾上多見蔵」(二代目)、「荒川内蔵之進 坂東彦三郎」(四代目)、「芸者かしく 尾上栄三郎」(三代目)
Attributed to: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1841 (Tenpô 12), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35 x 23.4 cm (13 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39438
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Tenjiku Tokubei Banri no Irifune
Theater: Nakamura
天竺徳兵衛万里船(てんじくとくべえばんりのいりふね)
中村
1841、天保12、07・15
Signed Unsigned (signature probably cut off of this impression at left)
無款
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.