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Actors Onoe Kikujirô II as the Wife (Nyôbô) Okitsu, Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the Outcaste (Hinin) Jirobei (R), Bandô Mitsugorô VI as Geisha Kojorô, and Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tamaya Shinbei (L)


「女房お喫 尾上栄次郎」(二代目)、「非人次郎兵衛 市川小団次」(四代目)  「げい者小女郎 坂東三津五郎」(六代目)、「玉屋新兵衛  市村家橘」(四代目、=十三代目市村羽左衛門)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.3 × 49 cm (14 5/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41561a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Asaki En Giri no Shigarami
Theater: Ichimura
浅縁義理柵(あさきえんぎりのしがらみ)
一谷凱歌小謡曲(いちのたにがいかのこうたい )
市村、二番目序幕
元治01 (1864)・08・
Signed Kunichika ga (on each sheet)
国周画
Marks Censor's seal: Rat 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:子九改
彫師:なし
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.