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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Kuganosuke (R) and Segawa Kikunojô V as Hinadori (L)


「久我之助 市川団十郎」(七代目)  「雛鳥 瀬川菊之丞」(五代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1818 (Bunka 15/Bunsei 1), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; about 38.1 × 50.8 cm (15 × 20 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21502-3
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: *11.21502 (left), *11.21503 (right)

MFA impressions: *11.21502-3 (complete diptych; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.26710-1 (complete diptych), 11.40048 (right sheet only)

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
Theater: Nakamura
妹背山婦女庭訓(いもせやまおんなていきん)
中村
1818、文化15、05・08
Signed Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.