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Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Prince Koreaki


是明親王ヵ 「尾上松助」(初代)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japanese
Edo period
1807 (Bunka 4), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 9.8 x 6.4 cm (3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43805
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Another print possibly from the same performance: Waseda db 100-2454
DescriptionPossibly cut from the same sheet: 11.43803, 11.43804, 11.43805, 11.43806, 11.43807

Play: Kigoto no Hana Yashima Kaijin
Theater: Ichimura
雪八島凱陣(きごとのはなやしまかいじん)
市村、一番目三建目
Signed (this picture unsigned)
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.