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Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Mitsuhide (R) and Iwai Hanshirô V as Satsuki (L)


「光秀 松本幸四郎」(五代目)  「さつき 岩井半四郎」(五代目)
Baikôsai Shunkei (Japanese, active about 1820–1840)
Shunchô (Japanese, active 1815–1823)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1820 (Bunsei 3), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38 x 51.4 cm (14 15/16 x 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35227-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 89
DescriptionDiptych (co-designed by Shunkei and Shunchô): 11.35227 (right), 11.35228 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.35227-8, 11.36299a-b

Play: Iwai Kotobuku Chiyo no Matsumoto
Theater: Naka
岩井寿千世松本(いわいことぶくちよのまつもと)

Signed Shunchô ga (right sheet); Shunkei ga (left sheet)
春蝶画 春敬画
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.