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「あづま 叶みんし」（初代） 「油屋与兵衛 あらし吉三郎」（二代目）
Actors Kano Minshi I as Azuma (R) and Arashi Kichisaburô II (Rikan) as Aburaya Yohei (L)
「あづま 叶みんし」（初代） 「油屋与兵衛 あらし吉三郎」（二代目）
Japanese
Edo period
1816 (Bunka 13), 8th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 × 50.8 cm (14 7/8 × 20 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35436-7
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), #059; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #61
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35436 (right), 11.35437 (left)
Play: Aburauri Kuruwa Monogatari (The Tale of an Oil-seller in the Pleasure Quarter)
Theater: Naka
油商人廓話（あぶらうりくるわものがたり）
中
Play: Aburauri Kuruwa Monogatari (The Tale of an Oil-seller in the Pleasure Quarter)
Theater: Naka
油商人廓話（あぶらうりくるわものがたり）
中
Signed
Shunkô ga
春好画
春好画
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.