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Actors Ichikawa Sukejûrô as Kakuju, Onoe Fujaku V as Kariya-hime (R), and Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Kan Shôjô (L), in Act 2 of Sugawara


「菅原 巻弐」 「覚寿 市川助十郎」、「かりやひめ 尾上芙雀」(五代目)  「菅丞相 実川延三郎」(初代)
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 25 x 36.9 cm (9 13/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20655, 11.21121
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 111; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #592
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.20655 (right), 11.21121 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.20655VR (11.20655, 11.21121; two right sheets only); 11.35798a-c (complete triptych)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
Theater: Naka
菅原伝授手習鑑(すがわらでんじゅてならいかがみ)

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.