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Actors Nakamura Utaemon III as Danshichi Kurôbei (R) and Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Issun Tokubei (L)


「団七九郎兵衛(だんしちくろべえ) 中村歌右衛門(なかむらうたえもん)」(三代中村歌右衛門の団七九郎兵衛) 「一寸得兵衛(いっすんとくべえ) 市川鰕十郎(いちかわえびじゅうろう)」(初代市川鰕十郎の一寸得兵衛)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1823 (Bunsei 6), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38 x 52.3 cm (14 15/16 x 20 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35463-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 93; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #148; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #180; Keyes, PMA cat. (1973), #209
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35463 (right), 11.35464 (left)

Play: Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami
Theater: Kado
文政6年4月、大坂、角の芝居「夏祭浪花鑑(なつまつりなにわかがみ)」の男伊達(おとこだて)の団七。 -- 武藤 純子K
Signed Shunkôsai Hokushû ga (on each sheet)
春好斎北洲画
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.