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Actors Onoe Baikô IV as Suke no tsubone (R), Ichikawa Kuzô II as Genkurô Yoshitsune (C), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Shinchûnagon Tomomori (L)


「すけのつぼね」四代目尾上梅幸 「源九郎義経」二代目市川九蔵 「新中納言知盛」四代目中村歌右衛門
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847 (Kôka 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36 x 74.5 cm (14 3/16 x 29 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44036a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura
Theater: Kawarazaki
義経千本桜(よしつねせんぼんざくら)
河原崎
1847、弘化04、09・11
Signed Hanmoto no ôju Toyokuni ga (on right and center sheets), Ôju Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
梓元の応需豊国画 応需豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
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.