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Actors Bandô Mitsugorô III as Kagokaki Yotsuyu no Jirozô, actually the Ghost (Bôrei) of Ôtô no Miya (R), and Iwai Hanshirô V as Jirozô's Wife (Nyôbô) Oyuki, actually the Ghost of Kureha (L)


かごかき夜つゆの次郎蔵実大塔の宮の亡霊 「坂東三津五郎」(三代目) 次郎蔵女房お雪実ハ呉羽の亡霊 「岩井半四郎」(五代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ezakiya Kichibei (Tenjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1817 (Bunka 14), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.5 x 49.7 cm (14 3/8 x 19 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15774-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.15774 (right), 11.15775 (left)

Play (finale of Part 2): Ada na Yatsushi Tsumoru Mutsugoto
Play (main feature): Hana to Fubuki Wagô Taiheiki
Theater: Nakamura
仇略積睦言(あだなやつしつもるむつごと) 常磐津
花雪和合太平記(はなとふぶきわごうたいへいき)
中村、二番目大切
1817、文化14、11・01
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.