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Actors Nakamura Kashichi II as Ikezoe Magohachi, Ogawa Kichitarô III as Watanabe Shizuma (R), and Nakamura Utaemon III as Karaki Masaemon (L)


「池添孫八 中村歌七」(二代目)、「渡辺しづま 小川吉太郎」(三代目)  「唐木又右衛門 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Shunshosai Hokuchô (Japanese, active 1822–1830)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1825 (Bunsei 8), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.5 x 51 cm (14 3/4 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35317-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 93; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #185
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35317 (right), 11.35318 (left)

Play: Igagoe Norikake Gappa
Theater: Kyoto Kita
伊賀越乗掛合羽
京北
Signed Shunkô monjin Shunshosai Hokuchô ga (on each sheet)
春好門人春曙斎北頂画
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.