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Actor Ôtani Hiroji V, 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)」「紫道」五代目大谷広治
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Hirookaya Kôsuke (Kikujudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.9 × 24.1 cm (14 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41095
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

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
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 3 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯三改
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem by the actor
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.