Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Actors Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as the Packhorse Driver (Umakata) Hachizô (R) and Kataoka Nizaemon VII as Hinuka Hachizô (L)


「馬かた八蔵 市川鰕十郎」(初代)  「ひぬか八蔵 片岡仁左衛門」(七代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Sôshiya (Japanese)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1816 (Bunka 13), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 x 51.6 cm (14 7/8 x 20 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35428-9
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), #063
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35428 (right), 11.35429 (left)

Play: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna
Theater: Kado
恋女房染分手綱(こいにょうぼうそめわけたづな)

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.