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歌かるた春夜遊 初代河原崎権十郎、十三代目市村羽左衛門、二代目沢村訥升 四代目中村芝翫、、？
Playing with Poem Cards on a Spring Night (Utagaruta shun'ya asobi): Actors Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I, Ichimura Uzaemon XIII, Sawamura Tosshô II (R), Nakamura Shikan IV, and an unidentified child actor (L)
歌かるた春夜遊 初代河原崎権十郎、十三代目市村羽左衛門、二代目沢村訥升 四代目中村芝翫、、？
Japanese
Edo period
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 12th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 37 × 50.2 cm (14 9/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21601-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ritsumeikan db: National Museum of Japanese History H-22-1-18-6
DescriptionDiptych (R and C sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.21601 (right), 11.21602 (left)
The title is on the missing left sheet.
The title is on the missing left sheet.
Signed
Kunichika hitsu, in toshidama cartouche (on each sheet)
国周筆（年玉枠）
国周筆（年玉枠）
Marks
Censor's seal: Dog 12 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：戌十二改
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：戌十二改
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.
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.