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Actors Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Saitô Kuranosuke (R), Arashi Sangorô III as Kobayakawa Takakage, and Ôtani Tomoemon II as Sengoku Gonpei (L)


「斎藤内蔵之助 市川鰕十郎」(初代)  「小早川高景 嵐三五郎」(三代目)、「仙石権平 大谷友右衛門」(二代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shioya Chôbei
Japanese
Edo period
1817 (Bunka 14), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 x 51.2 cm (14 7/8 x 20 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35426-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 88; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #066
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35426 (right), 11.35427 (left)

Play: Keisei Chigogafuchi
Theater: Kado
けいせい稚児淵(けいせいちごがふち)

Signed Shunkô ga (on each sheet)
春好画
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.