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Actors Sawamura Gennosuke I as Ume no Yoshibei (R) and Segawa Rokô IV as the Apprentice (Detchi) Chôkichi (L)


「梅の由兵へ 沢村源之助」(初代)  「でつち長吉 瀬川路考」(四代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Kawachiya Genshichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1810 (Bunka 7), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.1 x 51.3 cm (15 x 20 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22828-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 101-0005 (R), 101-0006 (L)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.22828 (left), 11.22829 (right)

Play: Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi
Theater: Nakamura
隅田春妓女容性(すだのはるげいしゃかたぎ)
中村、二番目三幕目
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks No censor's seal
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.