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「あふら屋与兵へ あらし璃寛」（二代目） 「ふじやあづま なかむら富十郎」（二代目）
Actors Arashi Rikan II as Oil-seller Yohei (Aburaya Yohei, R) and Nakamura Tomijûrô II as Azuma of the Wisteria House (Fujiya Azuma, L)
「あふら屋与兵へ あらし璃寛」（二代目） 「ふじやあづま なかむら富十郎」（二代目）
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1836 (Tenpô 7), 8th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 37 × 50.4 cm (14 9/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35259-60
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 102; Kitagawa, ed., Gacho (2006), #24; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #386; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #573
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35259 (right), 11.35260 (left)
MFA impressions: 11.35259-60, 11.38976a-b
Play: Aburauri Kuruwa Banashi (The Story of an Oil-seller in the Pleasure Quarter)
Theater: Naka
油商人廓話
中
MFA impressions: 11.35259-60, 11.38976a-b
Play: Aburauri Kuruwa Banashi (The Story of an Oil-seller in the Pleasure Quarter)
Theater: Naka
油商人廓話
中
Signed
Shunbaisai Hokuei ga (on each sheet)
春梅斎北英画
春梅斎北英画
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.