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Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VII as Jikokumaru (R) and Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Jûdômaru (L)


「持国丸 片岡仁左衛門」(七代目)  「重瞳丸 市川鰕十郎」(初代)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1820 (Bunsei 3), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 x 50.9 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35445-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 89; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #078; Schwaab, Osaka Prints (1989), #25
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35445 (right), 11.35446 (left)

Play: Keisei Hana no Konoshita
Theater: Kado
文政3年1月、大坂、角の芝居「けいせい花大樹(はなのこのした)」。市川の家紋の三升(みます)が衣裳にデザインされている。 -- 武藤 純子K
Signed Shunkôsai Hokushû ga (on each sheet)
春好斎北洲画
Marks 画家の印章: なし
版元: 本屋清七
改印: なし
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.