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Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III as Wakana-hime and Seki Sanjûrô III as Kusunoki Ôna Rôju, from the series Modern Tales of the Underworld (Imayô shiranami zukushi)


「若菜姫」三代目沢村田之助、「楠媼老樹」三代目関三十郎 「今様白波尽」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Ogawa (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 × 24.3 cm (14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41696
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-2714
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯正改
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.