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Memorial Portrait of Actor Segawa Kikunojô V


五代目瀬川菊之丞 (死絵) 「天保三年壬辰正月六日 五代目三十一才 瀬川菊之丞」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yorozuya Kichibei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1832 (Tenpô 3), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 24.7 cm (14 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39510
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 114-0187
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptions「翌はきへて蝶となるべし春の雪 路考」
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.