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Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô III as Soga no Jûrô (R), Bandô Hikosaburô III as Kudô Suketsune (C), and Bandô Mitsugorô II as Soga no Gorô (L)


三代沢村宗十郎の曽我十郎 三代坂東彦三郎の工藤祐経 二代坂東三津五郎の曽我五郎
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1795 (Kansei 7), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban triptych; 32.8 x 43.6 cm (12 15/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26707-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM, Sharaku (2011), #s 266-8
DescriptionTriptych: 11.26707 (left), 11.26708 (center), 11.26709 (right)

Play: Edo Sunago Kichirei Soga
Theater: Miyako
江戸砂子慶曽我(えどすなごきちれいそが)

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
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.