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「頼兼 中村歌右ェ門」（三代目） 「高尾 藤川花友」（二代目）
Actors Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Yorikane (R) and Fujikawa Kayû II as Takao (L)
「頼兼 中村歌右ェ門」（三代目） 「高尾 藤川花友」（二代目）
Japanese
Edo period
1816 (Bunka 13), 9th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 × 51 cm (14 7/8 × 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35109-10
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 88; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #202
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35109 (right), 11.35010 (left)
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
Theater: Kado
伽藍先代萩（めいぼくせんだいはぎ）
角
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
Theater: Kado
伽藍先代萩（めいぼくせんだいはぎ）
角
Signed
Ashiyuki ga (on each sheet)
芦ゆき画
芦ゆき画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
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.