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Actors Arashi Rikan II as the Fisherman (Ryôshi) Namishichi (R) and Iwai Shijaku I as Terute no mae (L)


「漁師浪七 嵐璃寛」(二代目)  「照手のまへ 岩井紫若」(初代)
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1833 (Tenpô 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.6 x 51.7 cm (14 13/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35305-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 100; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #305 (right sheet only); Keyes, PMA cat. (1973), #161 (left sheet only)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35305 (right), 11.35306 (left)

Play: Himekurabe Futaba Ezoshi
Theater: Naka
姫競双葉絵草紙

Signed Shunkôsai Hokuei ga (on each sheet)
春江斎北英画
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.