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Actor Sawamura Tosshô II as Mitsushima Samon, with unidentified actors as Police Officers (Torite) Ganpachi (R), Kichiroku, and Komajû (L)


「取手鴈八」 「三つ嶋左門 沢村訥升」(二代目)  「取手吉六」「同こま十」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.9 × 48.4 cm (14 1/8 × 19 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41570a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 101-0648 (R), 101-0649 (L)
DescriptionPlay: Mure Kiyotaki Hiiki no Seiriki
Theater: Morita
群清滝贔屓勢力(むれきよたきひいきのせいりき)
守田
Signed Kunichika hitsu (on each sheet)
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 10 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Sugawa Gin (?)
改印:卯十改
彫師:
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.