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Actors Nakamura Utaemon III as Enjô Jizaemon (R), Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Ikuta Denpachi (C), and Ichikawa Danzô V as Shundô Ikuhachirô (L)


「遠城治左衛門 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)  「生田伝八 市川鰕十郎」(初代)  「春藤幾八郎 市川団蔵」(五代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Japanese
Edo period
1823 (Bunsei 6), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38.2 x 75.8 cm (15 1/16 x 29 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35406-8
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. 1 (1997), #151; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #183
DescriptionTriptych: 11.35406 (right), 11.35407 (center), 11.35408 (left)

Play: Katakiuchi Sôzen-ji Baba
Theater: Kado
敵討崇禅寺馬場(かたきうちそうぜんじばば)

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.