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Actors Onoe Baikô IV as the Dance Teacher (Odori no shishô) Okatsu (R) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Akaneya Hanshichi (L)


「おどりの師匠お勝」四代目尾上梅幸  「茜屋半七」五代目沢村長十郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1850 (Kaei 3), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.1 x 50 cm (14 3/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43933a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay (shosa, finale of Part 2): Tomigaoka Ada no Kanegoto
Play (main feature): Sakaomodaka Yoroi Chôja
Theater: Ichimura
富岡仇兼言(とみがおかあだなかねごと) 清元
沢瀉鎧長者(さかおもだかよろいちょうじゃ)
市村、二番目大切
1850、嘉永03
Signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (on right sheet), Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
香蝶楼豊国画 一陽斎豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、渡辺
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.