Actors Nakamura Matsue III as the Daughter (Musume) Shinobu (R), Nakamura Utaemon III as Ki no Aritsune (C), Bandô Jûtarô I as Kasugano Koyoshi, and Ichikawa Danzô V as Mameshirô (L)

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Actors Nakamura Matsue III as the Daughter (Musume) Shinobu (R), Nakamura Utaemon III as Ki no Aritsune (C), Bandô Jûtarô I as Kasugano Koyoshi, and Ichikawa Danzô V as Mameshirô (L)

「娘しのぶ　中村松江」（三代）　　「紀ノ有常　中村歌右衛門」（三代）　　「春日野小よし　坂東寿太郎」（初代）、「豆四郎　市川団蔵」（五代）

Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1831 (Tenpô 2), 3rd month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.8 x 77 cm (14 1/2 x 30 5/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.35211-3

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e ten (2014), #361; Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 98; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #269

DescriptionTriptych: 11.35211 (right), 11.35212 (center), 11.35213 (left)

Play: Hadekurabe Ise Monogatari
Theater: Kado
競伊勢物語
角

Signed Shunkôsai Hokuei ga (on each sheet)
春江斎北英画

ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.