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Rei (Courtesy): Actor Nakamura Kanjaku II as Mishima Kurando, from an untitled series of Five Virtues (Jingireichishin)


仁義礼智信 「礼」 「三嶋蔵人 中村翫雀 」(二代目)
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 x 18.6 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43797
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 016-1205; Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 111
DescriptionPlay: Kokusen'ya Kassen
Theater: Kado
国性爺合戦(こくせんやかっせん)

Signed Kunikazu
国員
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.