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Actors Fujikawa Kayû III as the Country Girl (Inaka musume) Ohana, Seki Sanjûrô III as the Quack Doctor (Taiko isha) Sanshôtei, Bandô Tamasaburô II as Otama, the Daughter of the Maizuruya, Bandô Shûka I as the Naka-no-chô Geisha Ohide, and the Playwright Matsushima Tsuruji


「田舎娘お花」三代目藤川花友、「たいこ医者三松亭」三代目関三十郎、「舞鶴や娘お玉」二代目坂東玉三郎、「中の町げいしゃお秀」初代坂東しうか、「松島鶴二」
Utagawa Naomasa (Japanese, active about 1830–1860)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1849 (Kaei 2), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 x 25.3 cm (14 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44675
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Linhart, "Interpreting...," in Japan at Play (2002), translation of poem p. 46 (this print not shown)
DescriptionPlay (shosa): Shinki Ikken Tori no Hatsugoe (A Ken Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock)
Play (main feature): Aoto Banashi
Theater: Ichimura
新規一拳酉魁声(しんきいっけんとりのはつごえ)
青砥調(あおとばなし)
市村、四立目
1849、嘉永02、01・17
Signed Ikkyakusai Naomasa ga
一客斎直政画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、吉村
彫師:なし
InscriptionsSong: Omae onna no na de O-Isesan, kagura ga osuki de toppiki pii no pii, shishi wa Morokoshi Kôshi-sama, Ten-Ten-Tenjiku o Shaka-sama, maruku osamaru sangokuken, nan no kotta jabujabu ohige o nadenade, kururi to mawatte ikken shiyo
おまへ女の名でお伊勢さん。神楽がお好きでとっぴきぴィのぴひ。獅子は唐土孔子さま。てんてん天ぢくおしゃかさま。丸くおさまる三ごくけん。なんのこったじゃぶじゃぶお髭をなでなで。くるりと廻って一拳しょ
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.