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Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Nozarashi Gosuke (R) and Bandô Hikosaburô V as the Hell Courtesan (Jigoku Dayû)


「野晒語助 市村家橘」(四代目) 「地獄太夫 板東彦三郎」(五代目)
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.3 × 50.4 cm (14 11/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16411, 11.21904
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Meech, "Kuniyoshi and the Hell Courtesan," in Seduction (2015), fig. 63
DescriptionDiptych: 11.16411 (left), 11.21904 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.16411VR (11.16411, 11.21904), 11.45334a-b

Play (shosa, finale of Part 2): Ikkyû Jigoku Banashi
Play (main feature): Tsuru no Chitose Soga no Kadomatsu
Theater: Ichimura
一休地獄噺(いっきゅうじごくはなし)
鶴千歳曽我門松(つるのちとせそがのかどまつ)
市村
Signed Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga (on each sheet)
一蕙斎芳幾画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 1 aratame (on left sheet only)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑正改
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.