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Actors Iwai Hanshirô V as Shirai Gonpachi (R) and Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Banzui Chôbei (L)


「白井権八 岩井半四郎」(五代目)  「ばんすい長へ 松本幸四郎」(五代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Shimizu (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1828 (Bunsei 11), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.9 x 52.1 cm (15 5/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22832-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.22832 (left), 11.22833 (right)

Play: Kakenenashi Edo no Manaita
Theater: Nakamura
不負江戸男俎板(かけねなしえどのまないた)
中村
Signed Toyokuni ga (on each 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.