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Actor Segawa Rokô IV as Tomoe Gozen, cut from the sheet Newly Published Collection of Segawa Rokô (Shinpan Segawa Rokô tsukushi), one of a series showing actors in six roles each


四代目瀬川路考
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1808 (Bunka 5); date of production: 1807 (Bunka 4), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 11.4 x 11 cm (4 1/2 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43800
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, The Ôjaku Collection (2022), #96 (intact sheet); Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #167 (intact sheet)
DescriptionFrom the same sheet: 11.25277 (TR), 11.43800 (TL), 11.25276 (CR), 11.25268 (CL), 11.25314 (BR), 11.25290 (BL)
Title, signature, and publisher's mark in margins of intact print.

Scene: Onna Shibaraku
Play (kaomise): Kaikei Yuki no Konoshita
Theater: Nakamura
Date of production: 1807 (Bunka 4), 11th month
会稽雪木下
Signed (Toyokuni ga, in right margin of intact print)
(豊国画)
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.