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Actor Arashi Rikan I as Sasahara Hayato (R) and Kanô Minshi I as Chikusa-hime (L)


「笹原隼人 嵐璃寛」(初代) 「千くさひめ かなふみんし」(初代)
Harukawa Ashihiro (Japanese, active 1816–1836)
Ashisato (Japanese, active about 1800–1816)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1816 (Bunka 13), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38 x 51.5 cm (14 15/16 x 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35034, 11.36016
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 88; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #405; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #141
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35034 (left sheet, by Ashihiro), 11.36016 (right sheet, by Kunihiro)

Play: Koimomiji Ogura Shikishi
Theater: Naka
濃紅葉小倉色紙

Signed Kunihiro ga (on right sheet); Ashihiro ga (on left sheet)
国広画 芦広画
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.