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Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Yokawa Kakuhan (R) and Iwai Hanshirô V as the Female Courtier (Nyokan) Tamamushi, actually Sôken no Omatsu (L)


「横川覚範 松本幸四郎」(五代目) 「女官玉虫実ハ相見のおまつ 岩井半四郎」(五代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1827 (Bunsei 10), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.8 x 50.6 cm (14 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22269-70
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.22269 (right), 11.22270 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.22269-70 (complete diptych), 11.29584 (right sheet only)

Play: Kinbusen Yosooi Genji
Theater: Nakamura
金峰山艶色源氏(きんぶせんよそおいげんじ)
中村
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.