Actors Ichikawa Sadanji I as Fukuyama, Kawarazaki Kunitarô II as Shiratama (R), Nakamura Shikan IV as Hige no Ikyu, Nakamura Kanjaku III as a Vendor of White Sake (Shirozake-uri) (C), Kawarazaki Gonnosuke VII as Hanakawado Sukeroku, and Iwai Shijaku II (=Hanshirô VIII) as Agemaki (L)

「ふく山　市川左団次」（初代）、「しら玉　河原崎国太郎」（二代目）　　「髯ノ意休　中村芝翫」（四代目）、「白酒うり　中村翫雀」（三代目）　　「花川戸助六　河原崎権之助」（七代目）、「あけ巻　岩井紫若」（二代目）

Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Katada Chôjirô (Hori Chô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1872 (Meiji 5), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36 × 74.5 cm (14 3/16 × 29 5/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.30391-3

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTriptych: 11.30391 (left), 11.30392 (center), 11.30393 (right)

Play: Sukeroku Yuen no Yaezakura
Theater: Morita

No date seal visible.
助六由縁八重桜（すけろくゆえんのやえざくら）
守田

Signed Kunichika hitsu (on right and center sheets)
国周筆

Marks No censor's seal
Blockcutter's mark: Katada Hori Chô (on right sheet only)
改印：なし
彫師：片田彫長

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.