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Actors, from right: Bandô Jûtarô I as Teranishi Kanshin; Arashi Koroku IV as Komurasaki; Iwai Hanshirô V as Shirai Gonpachi; Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Banzui Chôbei


「寺西閑心 坂東重太郎」(初代)  「小むらさき あらし小六」(四代目)  「白井権八 岩井半四郎」(五代目)  「幡随長兵衛 松本幸四郎」(五代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban tetraptych; 37.7 x 99.1 cm (14 13/16 x 39 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26855-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 90; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #103
DescriptionTetraptych, from right to left: 11.26855, 11.26856, 11.26857, 11.26858

Play: Tatehiki Kotoba no Hanakawado
Theater: Naka
侠詞花川戸(たてひきことばのはなかわど)

Signed Shunkôsai Hokushû ga (on each sheet)
春好斎北洲画
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.