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Actor Bandô Hikosaburô V, from the series Modern Eastern Fans (Tôsei azuma uchiwa)


「当世東団扇」 五代目坂東彦三郎
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Maruya Heijirô
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 8th month (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 × 24.5 cm (14 1/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40587
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-0177
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 8 aratame (?)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯八改ヵ
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem by Shinsui (Hikosaburô)
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.