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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Actors Kawarazaki Gonjurô I as the Bandit (Tôzoku) Saikoku Tarô (R) and Bandô Hikosaburô V as the Courier (Hikyaku) Otohei (L)


「盗賊西国太郎 河原崎権十郎」 (初代) 「飛脚音平 坂東彦三郎」(五代目)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Izutsuya Shôkichi, Japanese
Blockcutter: Watanabe Eizô (Hori Ei) (Japanese, 1833–1901)
Japanese
Edo period
1866 (Keiô 2), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.3 x 48.7 cm (14 5/16 x 19 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41575a-b
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 101-5696 (R), 101-5697 (C), 101-5698 (L)
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.41575a-b (two right sheets only; deaccessioned in 2019), 11.41780a-c (complete triptych)

Play: Yagura Daiko Oto mo Yoshiwara
Theater: Ichimura
櫓太鼓鳴音吉原(やぐらだいこおともよしわら)
市村
Signed Kunichika hitsu (on each sheet)
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Tiger 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ei
改印:寅二改
彫師:彫栄
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.