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Actors Sawamura Kunitarô II as the Court Lady Sekiya and Ôtani Tomoemon II as Hyakubei (R), and Arashi Kitsusaburô II as Takashima Kuhachi (L)


「お女中関屋 沢村国太郎 百兵衛 大谷友右エ門」 「高島九八 嵐橘三郎」
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1828 (Bunsei 11), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.2 x 51.7 cm (15 1/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35134-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 96; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #273
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35134 (right), 11.35135 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.35134-5, 11.36297a-b

Play: Keisei Suô no Dairi
Theater: Naka
けいせい素袍(内裏)

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.