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Actors Iwai Kumesaburô III as Yamatoya Oyama, Bandô Takesaburô I as Tôrimono Take (R), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Moremore no Yokazô (L)


「大和 やおやま」三代目岩井粂三郎、「通り物竹」初代坂東竹三郎  「もれ/\の与嘉蔵」四代目市川小団次
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Iseya Bunshichi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Koizumi Minokichi (Hori Mino) (Japanese, 1833–1906)
Japanese
Edo period
1851 (Kaei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.2 x 49 cm (14 1/4 x 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28748-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 201-0026 (R), 201-0027 (L); Kuniyoshi Project db
DescriptionDiptych: 11.28748 (right), 11.28749 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.28748-9, 11.28833 (left sheet only), 11.38358a-b

Play: Iro Ichiza Tego to no Fukubiki
Theater: Nakamura
彩一座戯福摂(いろいちざてごとのふくびき)
中村
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Mino (on each sheet)
改印:衣笠、村田
彫師:彫巳の
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.