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Acrobat Sakuratsuna Komaju from Osaka Performing in the Inner Precinct at Asakusa


「大阪下り 桜綱駒寿」 「浅草奥山二而 興行仕候」
Utagawa Kunitaka (Japanese, active about 1854–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 24.6 cm (14 5/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39882
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné http://blog.livedoor.jp/misemono/archives/cat_50049088.html
Signed Utagawa Kunitaka ga (on poem slip hanging from tree)
歌川国孝画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 3
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳三
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.