Butsumetsu: Actor Nakamura Shikan III as Akechi Samagorô, from the series Matches for the Six Days of Divination (Mitate Rokuyôsei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Butsumetsu: Actor Nakamura Shikan III as Akechi Samagorô, from the series Matches for the Six Days of Divination (Mitate Rokuyôsei)

Butsumetsu: Actor Nakamura Shikan III as Akechi Samagorô, from the series Matches for the Six Days of Divination (Mitate Rokuyôsei)

「見立六曜星仏滅」「明智左馬五郎中村芝蔵」（三代目）

Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)

Japanese

Meiji era

1870 (Meiji 3), 10th month

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24 x 17.2 cm (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession Number08.542.7

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 016-1771

DescriptionThe complete series: 08.542.3 to 08.542.8 .

Play: Matsushita Kaheiji Renga Hyôban
Theater: Horie
松下嘉平治連歌評判（まつしたかへいじれんがひょうばん）
堀江

Signed Yoshitaki ga
芳瀧画

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)