Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Hige no Ikyû (R), Nakayama Tomisaburô I as Agemaki (C), and Ichikawa Komazô III as Sukeroku (L)

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Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Hige no Ikyû (R), Nakayama Tomisaburô I as Agemaki (C), and Ichikawa Komazô III as Sukeroku (L)

初代尾上松助の髭の伊久　　初代中山富三郎のあげまき　　三代目市川高麗蔵

Katsukawa Shun'ei (Japanese, 1762–1819)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1797 (Kansei 9), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.5 x 73.7 cm (14 3/4 x 29 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.7311-3

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark et al., The Actor's Image (1994), #680 (L sheet only, cut down to hosoban size); related triptych by Toyokuni: Heiteres treiben... (Köln, 1990), #1-56

DescriptionTriptych: 21.7311 (right), 21.7312 (center), 21.7313 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.2132 (right sheet only), 21.7311-3 (complete triptych)

Play: Sukeroku Kuruwa no Sakurato
Theater: Kawarazaki
助六廓桜人（すけろくくるわのさくらと）
河原崎

Signed Shun'ei ga (on right sheet only)
春英画

ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.