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Actors Ichikawa Ebizō V, also playing Matsuōmaru and Honzō, as Ōmi Kotōda Nariie (Matsuōmaru Honzō kore o Ōmi Kotōda Nariie) (R); Bandō Mitsugorō IV, also playing Shihei and Kō no Moronō, as Kudō Saemon Suketsune; Ichikawa Kuzō II, also playing Umeōmaru and Jūtarō, as Soga Jūrō Sukenari (C); and Iwai Hanshirō VI, also playing Sakuramaru and Sadakurō, as Soga no Gorō Tokimune (L)


「松王丸・本蔵是を近江小藤太成家」五代目市川海老蔵  「時平・高師直是を工藤左衛門祐つね」四代目坂東三津五郎、「梅王丸・重太郎是を曽我十郎祐成」二代目市川九蔵  「桜丸・定九郎是を曽我の五郎時宗」六代目岩井半四郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1836 (Tenpō 7), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ōban triptych; 38 x 78.1 cm (14 15/16 x 30 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40613a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Sugawara-ryū Kanagaki Soga
Theater: Morita
菅原流国字曽我(すがわらりゅうかながきそが)
森田
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.