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New Year Music for Top Stars (Senkin haru no gaku): Actors in an Imaginary Street Scene: Bandô Hikosaburô V as a Man in Formal Dress, Sawamura Tanosuke III as a Girl Playing Hanetsuki, and an unidentified actor as a Porter (R); Iwai Kumesaburû III as a Torioi Street Muscian, Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I and Bandô Murauemon as Daikagura Street Musians (C); Nakamura Shikan IV as a Monkey Trainer, Ichikawa Ichizô III as a Potted Plant Vendor, and an unidentified child actor (R)


「値千金春乃楽」 五代目坂東彦三郎、三代目沢村田之助  三代目岩井粂三郎の鳥追い、初代河原崎権十郎の太神楽、初代坂東村右衛門の太神楽  四代目中村芝翫の猿廻し、三代目市川市蔵の植木屋
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Uemura Yasugorô (Hori Yasu) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 × 74 cm (14 7/16 × 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41155a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 009-0067 (R), 101-6733 (C), 101-6734 (L)
Signed Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga (on each sheet)
一蕙斎芳幾画
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 11 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Yasu kokutô
改印:申十一改
彫師:彫安刻刀
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.