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Actors Bandô Mitsugorô VI as the Girl (Musume) Oyama (R) and Nakamura Shikan IV as Hotei (L)


「娘おやま 坂東三津五郎」(六代目)  布袋「中村芝翫」(四代目)
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Shimizuya Naojirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.3 × 48.1 cm (13 7/8 × 18 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39878a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.39878a-b, 11.41269a-b
Signed Yoshitora ga (on left sheet only)
芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 8 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯八改
彫師:なし
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.