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Actors Nakayama Nanshi II as Utsushie, the Female Saigyô (R); Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Minamoto no Yoriie (C); and Arashi San'emon IX as the Courtesan (Keisei) Mojitsuru (L), in the play Chôja Tsuribune


「長者艦」 「女西行うつしへ 中山なんし」(二代目) 「源ノ頼家 実川延三郎」(初代) 「けいせいもぢ鶴 嵐三右衛門」(九代目)
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 25 x 53.6 cm (9 13/16 x 21 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20657a-b, 11.21103
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 109; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #557
DescriptionTriptych: 11.20657a-b (R, C), 11.21103 (L)

Play: Keisei Chôja Tsuribune
Theater: Naka
けいせい長者艦

Signed Kunikazu (on each sheet)
国員
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.