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Actors Bandô Hikosaburô V as Nippondaemon (R) and Ôtani Tomoemon V as Mishima Shôhei (L)


「日本駄右衞門 坂東彦三郎」(五代目)  「三嶋正兵衛 大谷友右衛門」(五代目)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Masudaya Ginjirô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Katada Chôjirô (Hori Chô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.9 × 47.6 cm (14 1/8 × 18 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41554a-b
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-0230 (R), 007-0229 (L)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17385 (right sheet only), 11.41554a-b (complete diptych)

Play: Tomigaoka Koi no Yamagane
Theater: Nakamura
富賀岡恋の山鐘(とみがおかこいのやまがね)
中村
Signed Kunichika hitsu (on each sheet)
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragon 1 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Katada Chô (on right sheet), Horikô Chô (on left sheet)
改印:辰正改
彫師:彫工片田長 彫工長
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.