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風流六歌仙 「小町」二代目中山南枝 「なり平」四代目中村歌右衛門
Actors Nakayama Nanshi II as Ono no Komachi (R) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Narihira (L), in The Fashionable Six Poetic Immortals (Fûryû Rokkasen)
風流六歌仙 「小町」二代目中山南枝 「なり平」四代目中村歌右衛門
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 1st month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban diptych; 24.9 x 26.7 cm (9 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession Number08.541.6a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 108 (as 11.35606a-f; this # not listed); Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #425; Keyes, PMA cat. (1973), #119 (no photo)
DescriptionTwo sheets of an incomplete hexaptych.
MFA impressions: 08.541.6a-b (4 and 5 only), 11.35606a-f (complete hexaptych), 11.35607 (5 only), *11.41973a-b (1 and 2 only; deaccessioned in 2019), 11.41998a-f (complete hexaptych)
Play: Rokkasen
Theater: Naka
六歌仙
中
MFA impressions: 08.541.6a-b (4 and 5 only), 11.35606a-f (complete hexaptych), 11.35607 (5 only), *11.41973a-b (1 and 2 only; deaccessioned in 2019), 11.41998a-f (complete hexaptych)
Play: Rokkasen
Theater: Naka
六歌仙
中
Signed
Hirosada (on each sheet)
広貞
広貞
ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 17, 2007)