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「真写月花の姿絵（まことのつきはなのすがたえ）」 四代目市村家橘
Frontispiece, with Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV, from the series Portraits as True Likenesses in the Moonlight (Makoto no tsuki hana no sugata-e)
「真写月花の姿絵（まことのつきはなのすがたえ）」 四代目市村家橘
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 4th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 35.5 × 24.4 cm (14 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41080
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Mem. Mus., Warau ukiyo-e (2013), #87; Utagawa ha (Kobijutsu special issue 7, 1986), #333
DescriptionFrom a series of 38 sheets, including a title page, frontispiece, and 36 silhouette portraits.
Signed
Chôkarô Yoshiiku mô (?)
朝霞楼芳幾模
朝霞楼芳幾模
Marks
Censor's seal: Hare 4 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：卯四改
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：卯四改
彫師：なし
Inscriptions「乍憚以口上御披露蔭を障子に写しせる事ハ頃日通家の遊なりしを這度我輩の陰を写して例の大錦とせられしが実に其人に逢る心地せらる願ふハ更四方の雲顧の御蔭に依て永当ゝ御求め給えらバ画工ハ更なり我々迄憑れがひに異何大慶これに過ざらんや其ため告條左様としかいふ」
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.
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.