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Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Wakasanosuke (R) and Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Kakogawa Honzô (L)


「若狭之介 市川団十郎」(七代目)  「加古川本蔵 松本幸四郎」(五代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Imariya Ushizô (Bunhôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1825 (Bunsei 8), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 x 53 cm (14 7/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40728a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-0079 (L only)
DescriptionPlay: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Theater: Nakamura
仮名手本忠臣蔵(かなでほんちゅうしんぐら)
中村
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.