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Actor Bandô Hikosaburô V as Rokuji Namuemon, from the series Thirty-two Mirrors of Good and Evil (Zen'aku sanjûni kyô)


「善悪三十二鏡」「六字南無右衛門 坂東彦三郎」 (五代目)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Wakasaya Jingorô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 × 24.1 cm (14 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40487
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-2204
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 10 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯十改
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.