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「杉倉木曽介氏元 関三十郎」（二代目） 「ふせひめ 中村富十郎」（二代目） 「金鞠大輔 嵐璃寛」（二代目） 「けいせい玉梓 中山南枝」（二代目）
Actors, from right: Seki Sanjûrô II as Sugikura Kisonosuke Ujimoto, Nakamura Tamijûrô II as Fuse-hime, Arashi Rikan II as Kanamari Daisuke, and Nakayama Nanshi II as the Courtesan (Keisei) Tamazusa
「杉倉木曽介氏元 関三十郎」（二代目） 「ふせひめ 中村富十郎」（二代目） 「金鞠大輔 嵐璃寛」（二代目） 「けいせい玉梓 中山南枝」（二代目）
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1836 (Tenpô 7), 1st month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban tetraptych; 37.3 x 99.6 cm (14 11/16 x 39 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35282-5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Hakkenden no sekai (2008), #192; Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 101; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #374
DescriptionTetraptych: 11.35282 (right), 11.35283 (center right), 11.35284 (center left), 11.35285 (left)
Play: Hana no Ani Tsubomi no Yatsufusa
Theater: Naka
花魁莟八総
中
Play: Hana no Ani Tsubomi no Yatsufusa
Theater: Naka
花魁莟八総
中
Signed
Shunbaisai Hokuei ga (on each sheet)
春梅斎北英画
春梅斎北英画
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.
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.