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Actors Iwai Hanshirô V as a Shirabyôshi Dancer (R), Bandô Mitsugorô III as Matazô, and Ichikawa Omezô I as Matagorô (L)


五代目岩井半四郎の白ひやうし  三代目坂東三津五郎の又三、初代市川男女蔵の又五郎
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Hachi (1) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1807 (Bunka 4), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.8 x 51.4 cm (14 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26758-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 101-6543 (R), 101-6544 (L)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.26758 (right), 11.26759 (left)

Play (shosa): Gosekku
Section of shosa: Nenohi, Otokomai Tegoto no Aioi
Play (main feature): Saruwaka Sakae Soga
Theater: Nakamura
上演場所:江戸・ 中村
興行名:さるわか栄曽我 (さるわかさかえそが) 場立:二番目
所作題:五節句(ごせっく) 音曲:長唄
細目題:子の日 男舞曲相生 (ねのび おとこまいてごとのあいおい)

年代記には「衛仕」とあり。
Signed Toyokuni ga (on the background ema in the right 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.