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Actors Fujikawa Kayû III as Kashiwagi (R), Onoe Kikugorô III as Usugumo (C), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Inabanosuke (L), in The Fifty-three Stations: Haunting at Okazaki Station (Gojûsan tsugi no uchi Okazaki shuku no yôkai)


「五十三次乃内岡崎」「柏木」三代目藤川花友 「うす雲」三代目尾上菊五郎 「因幡之助」十二代目市村羽左衛門
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Jôshûya Jûshichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847 (Kôka 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.8 x 72.8 cm (14 1/8 x 28 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29230-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTriptych: 11.29230 (right), 11.29231 (center), 11.29232 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.29100 (right sheet only), 11.29230-2 (complete triptych), 17.3216.5 (center sheet only)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô Ichidai Banashi
Theater: Ichimura
尾上梅寿一代噺(おのえきくごろういちだいばなし)
市村
Signed Ôju Toyokuni ga (on right sheet), Hanmoto no ôju Toyokuni ga (on center and left sheets)
應需豊国画 梓元の應需豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
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.