Actor Evaluations in the Dressing Room, Second Collection (Gakuya daihyôban, nishô): Actors Ichikawa Shinsha I, Nakamura Komajûrô I, Iwai Kumesaburô III, Onoe Kikujirô II, Ichimura Takematsu III (R), Kawarazaki Kunitarô I, Ichikawa Kuzô III, Kataoka Jûzô I, Nakamura Shikan IV (C), Bandô Kamezô I, Ichikawa Yaozô VI, Ichikawa Yonegorô I, Sawamura Tanosuke III, Nakamura Ganpachi I, Ichikawa Kohanji I, and Bandô Mitsugorô VI (L)

「楽屋大評判　弐輯」右　「市川新車」（初代）、「中村駒十郎」（初代）、「岩井粂三郎」（三代目）、「尾上菊次郎」、「市村竹松」（三代目）中　「河原崎国太郎」（初代）、「市川九蔵」（三代目）、「片岡十蔵」（初代）、「中村芝翫」（四代目）左　「坂東亀蔵」（初代）、「市川八百蔵」（六代目）、「市川米五郎」（初代）、「沢村田之助」（三代目）、「中村鴈八」（初代）、「市川小半次」（初代）、「坂東三津五郎」（六代目）

Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Izutsuya Shôkichi, Japanese

Japanese

Edo period

1863 (Bunkyû 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.4 × 74 cm (14 5/16 × 29 1/8 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.41749a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db

DescriptionWith commentaries on the actors by Shuntei Keikaku.
見立
画面上部は春亭京鶴による役者の評判。

Signed Kunichika ga (on each sheet)
国周画

Marks Censor's seal: Boar 11 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：亥十一改
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.