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Actors Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Asahina Tôbei (R) and Nakamura Utaemon III as Terakoya Hyôsuke (L)


「朝比奈藤兵衛 市川鰕十郎」(初代)  「寺子屋兵助 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1826 (Bunsei 9), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.6 x 50.9 cm (14 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35150-1
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), #256; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #321
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35150 (right), 11.35151 (left)

Play: Gokusaishiki Musume Ôgi
Theater: Naka
極彩色娘扇(ごくさいしきむすめおうぎ)

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.