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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Actors Iwai Kumesaburô III as Hisakata Hime and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Kimura Tatewaki (R), and Nakamura Tomijûrô II as Sangoku no Tayû, Actually the Spirit of a Spider (L)


「久方姫」三代目岩井粂三郎、「木村帯刀」三代目嵐吉三郎  「三国太夫実ハ土蜘の精」二代目中村富十郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.6 x 48.1 cm (14 x 18 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29170-1
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: *11.29170 (right), *11.29171 (left)

MFA impressions: *11.29170-1 (two right sheets only; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.29178-80, 11.29215-7, *11.29275 (left sheet only; deaccessioned in 2019)

Play: Kana Kyôdai Musume no Adauchi
Theater: Ichimura
仮名☆☆娘復讐(かなきょうだいむすめのあだうち)
市村
1853、嘉永06、09・21
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (on right sheet only)
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Ox 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、渡辺、丑七
彫師:なし
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.