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Actors Arashi Kitsusaburô II as the Wife (Nyôbô) Kasane (R) and Sawamura Kunitarô II as Otake (L)


「女房かさね 嵐橘三郎」(二代目)  「お竹 沢村国太郎」(二代目)
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1828 (Bunsei 11), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.6 x 50.9 cm (14 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35138-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 97
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35138 (right), 11.35139 (left)

Play: Kewaimizu Kinugawa Tsuzumi
Theater: Kado
粧水絹川堤(けわいみずきぬがわつづみ)

Signed Gigadô Ashiyuki ga (on each sheet)
戯画堂芦ゆき画
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.