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Water (Mizu): Actor Ôtani Tomomatsu I as Hôkaibô and Ichikawa Fudenosuke I as Okumi in Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage, from the series Matches for the Five Elements (Mitate gogyô no uchi)


「見立五行之内 水 隅田川続俤」 「法界坊 大谷友松」(初代)、「おくみ 市川筆之助」(初代)
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.1 x 18 cm (9 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42996
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 118; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #201
DescriptionPlay: Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage
Theater: Chikugo
隅田川続俤(すみだがわごにちのおもかげ)
筑後
Signed Yoshitaki ga
芳瀧画
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.