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上 「きり太郎 坂東寿太郎」（初代） 下、右から 「おせん 中村歌六」（初代）、「辻要助 実川額十郎」（初代） 「吉川景任 嵐璃寛」（二代目） 「妹しおり 岩井紫若」（初代） 「阿曽ヶ嶽多楽坊実は尼子秀丸 片岡市蔵」（初代）
Actors Bandô Jutarô I as Kiritarô (top); (from R) Nakamura Karoku I as Osen and Jitsukawa Gakujûrô I as Tsuji Yôsuke; Arashi Rikan II as Yoshikawa Kageto; Iwai Shijaku I as the sister Shiori; Kataoka Ichizô I as Asôgadake Tarakubô, actually Amako Hidemaru
上 「きり太郎 坂東寿太郎」（初代） 下、右から 「おせん 中村歌六」（初代）、「辻要助 実川額十郎」（初代） 「吉川景任 嵐璃寛」（二代目） 「妹しおり 岩井紫若」（初代） 「阿曽ヶ嶽多楽坊実は尼子秀丸 片岡市蔵」（初代）
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1835 (Tenpô 6), 1st month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban, assymetrical two-tier pentaptych; 75 x 100.2 cm (29 1/2 x 39 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35273-7
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 101; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #344; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #525
DescriptionPentaptych: 11.35273 (right), 11.35274 (center right), 11.35275 (center left), 11.35276 (left), 11.35277 (top)
Play: Keisei Hanabusa-zôshi
Theater: Naka
けいせい英草紙
中
Play: Keisei Hanabusa-zôshi
Theater: Naka
けいせい英草紙
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.