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Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III as Toki-hime (R) and Nakamura Shikan IV as Sasaki Tôzaburô (L)


「とき姫 沢村田之助」(三代目)  「佐々木藤三郎 中村芝翫」(四代目)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Masakichi (Hori Masa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36 × 47.8 cm (14 3/16 × 18 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41657a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-5555 (R), 100-5556 (L)
Description季既橇成駒摂負
守田
Signed Kunichika ga (on each sheet)
国周画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 8 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Matsushima Hori Masa
改印:丑八改
彫師:松島彫政
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.