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Actors Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Miura Arajirô (R) and Nakamura Utaemon III as Sano Genzaemon (L)


「三浦荒次郎 市川鰕十郎」(初代)  「佐野源左衛門 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shioya Chôbei
Japanese
Edo period
1816 (Bunka 13), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 x 51 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35430-1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 87; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #056; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #94
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35430 (right), 11.35431 (left)

Play: Yayoi ni Hiraku Ando no Funahashi
Theater: Kado
三月開嬉心船橋

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.