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Actors Onoe Kikujirô II as Chûrô Onoe (R) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as the Servant (Meshitsukai) Ohatsu (L)


「中老尾のゑ」二代目尾上菊次郎 「召仕お初」三代目岩井粂三郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Daikokuya Heikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1850 (Kaei 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.1 x 50.2 cm (14 3/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43919a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Hana Momiji Tsui no Uchikake
Theater: Kawarazaki
花紅葉一対裲襠(はなもみじついのうちかけ)
河原崎
1850、嘉永03、07・09
Signed Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (on right sheet); Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
一陽斎豊国画 香蝶楼豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, shita-uri
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松、シタ売
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.