Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Ox (Ushi): Actor Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Sakuramaru, from the series Loyalty and Fidelity for the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Chûkô jûnishi no uchi)


「忠孝十二支之内 丑 さくらまる」 初代実川延三郎
Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1849 (Kaei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 x 18.5 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession Number08.541.33
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #130; Keyes, PMA cat. (1973), #51a (no photo)
DescriptionPlay: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(mitate)
菅原伝授手習鑑(すがわらでんじゅてならいかがみ)
見立
Signed Hirosada
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)