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Superb Edo Pictures Illustrating Dances (Odori keiyô Edo-e no sakae): Interior of an Imaginary Theater with a Performance of Shibaraku


「踊形容江戸絵栄」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Nôshûya Yasubei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.9 x 75.7 cm (14 1/2 x 29 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44263a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), #86; Herwig, Heroes of the Kabuki Stage (2004), #28; Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #127
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.44263a-c, 2016.947

中村座・市村座・守田座の三座を見立てた劇場図。舞台上では暫を上演。
Signed Ichiyôsai Hinashi Toyokuni ga (on left sheet only)
一陽斎雛獅豊国筆(年玉印)
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:午七
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.