Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Yazama Jûtarô, from the series The Exemplary Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Chûretsu gishi den) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Yazama Jûtarô, from the series The Exemplary Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Chûretsu gishi den)

Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Yazama Jûtarô, from the series The Exemplary Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Chûretsu gishi den)

「忠烈義士伝　矢間十太郎」　二代目嵐璃珏

Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)

Japanese

Edo period

1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 23.8 x 16.3 cm (9 3/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession Number08.541.76

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano et al., Chûshingura VII (2014), list #1-598, photo p. 21; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #79

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)