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Actors Segawa Kikunojô V as Osato (R) and Mimasu Gennosuke I as Yasuke (L)


「お里 瀬川菊之丞」(五代目) 「弥助 三枡源之助」(初代)
Japanese
Edo period
1829 (Bunsei 12), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.8 x 48.8 cm (14 1/8 x 19 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22277, 11.22313
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.22277 (right), 11.22313 (left)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura
Theater: Nakamura
義経千本桜(よしつねせんぼんざくら)
中村
1829、文政12、03・03
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.