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「風流六歌仙」 「へん正」 中村歌右衛門 「康秀」 中村歌右衛門
DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019
The Fashionable Six Poetic Immortals (Fûryû Rokkasen): Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Bishop Henjô (R) and Bun'ya no Yasuhide (L)
「風流六歌仙」 「へん正」 中村歌右衛門 「康秀」 中村歌右衛門
Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 1st month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban diptych; 26 x 37.3 cm (10 1/4 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41973a-b
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 108 (as 11.35606a-f; this # not listed); Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #425; Keyes, PMA cat. (1973), #119 (no photo)
DescriptionTwo right sheets of an incomplete hexaptych.
MFA impressions: 08.541.6a-b (4 and 5 only), 11.35606a-f (complete hexaptych), 11.35607 (5 only), *11.41973a-b (1 and 2 only; deaccessioned in 2019), 11.41998a-f (complete hexaptych)
Play: Rokkasen
Theater: Naka
六歌仙
中
MFA impressions: 08.541.6a-b (4 and 5 only), 11.35606a-f (complete hexaptych), 11.35607 (5 only), *11.41973a-b (1 and 2 only; deaccessioned in 2019), 11.41998a-f (complete hexaptych)
Play: Rokkasen
Theater: Naka
六歌仙
中
Signed
Hirosada (on each sheet)
広貞
広貞
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.
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.