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Actors Fujikawa Tomokichi II as Tonami and Sawamura Kunitarô II as Nishiki no Mae (R); Onoe Kikugorô III as Kanshôjô (C); Asao Gakujûrô I as Takebe Genzô and Arashi Shagan I as Mareo (L)


「となみ 藤川友吉」(二代目)、「錦のまへ 沢村国太郎」(二代目) 「菅相丞 尾上菊五郎」(三代目) 「武部源蔵 浅尾額十郎」(初代)、「稀王 嵐舎丸」(初代)
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1826 (Bunsei 9), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.5 x 75.6 cm (14 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35164-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 95; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #251
DescriptionTriptych: 11.35164 (right), 11.35165 (center), 11.35166 (left)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
Theater: Naka
菅原伝授手習鑑(すがわらでんじゅてならいかがみ)

Signed Gigadô Ashiyuki ga (on each sheet)
戯画堂芦ゆき画
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.