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江戸芝居三階之図 三代目坂東三津五郎、？、五代目岩井半四郎ヵ、初代浅尾工左衛門ヵ 初代中山富三郎、五代目松本幸四郎、五代目市川海老蔵（七代目市川団十郎）、初代尾上栄三郎
The Third Floor of a Theater in Edo (Edo shibai sankai no zu): Actors (clockwise from top left on each sheet) Bandô Mitsugorô III, unidentified actor, Iwai Hanshirô V (?), Asao Kuzaemon I (?) (R); Nakayama Tomisaburô I, Matsumoto Kôshirô V, Ichikawa Ebizô V (Ichikawa Danjurô VII), Onoe Eizaburô I (L)
江戸芝居三階之図 三代目坂東三津五郎、？、五代目岩井半四郎ヵ、初代浅尾工左衛門ヵ 初代中山富三郎、五代目松本幸四郎、五代目市川海老蔵（七代目市川団十郎）、初代尾上栄三郎
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 39.9 x 51.3 cm (15 11/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13706, 11.22497
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Tobacco & Salt Mus., 100 Woodblock Prints (2008), #30 (complete); Ukiyo-e daiten (exh. cat., 1969), #100 (complete); TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #s 2580-2 (complete)
DescriptionDiptych (two left sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.13706 (right), 11.22497 (left)
MFA impressions: 11.13706, 11.22497 (diptych); 50.2324 (left sheet only)
The title is on the missing right sheet.
Theater: Ichimura
MFA impressions: 11.13706, 11.22497 (diptych); 50.2324 (left sheet only)
The title is on the missing right sheet.
Theater: Ichimura
Signed
Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
豊国画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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.
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.