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Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Madoroku in the Book Warabe uta myômyô guruma, from the series Contest of Popular Modern Books (Tôsei sôshi awase)


「当盛草紙合 童歌妙々車 魔度六」 四代目市村家橘
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Kagaya Kichiemon (Kichibei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Watanabe Eizô (Hori Ei) (Japanese, 1833–1901)
Japanese
Edo period
1866 (Keiô 2), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 × 24.4 cm (14 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39761
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri et al., Edo no eiyû II (2010), #80
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.39761, 11.41228
Signed Yoshiiku ga
芳幾画
Marks Censor's seal: Tiger 12 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Ei
改印:寅十二改
彫師:彫工栄
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.