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Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VII as Kasahara Shinzaburô (R) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Miyamoto Musashi (L)


「笠原新三郎 片岡仁左衛門」(七代目)  「宮本むさし 市川団十郎」(七代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Matsumura Tatsuemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1817 (Bunka 14), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.5 x 50.5 cm (14 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21622-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kuwana City Mus., Shodai Utagawa Toyokuni yakusha-e ten (2002), #99
DescriptionDiptych: 11.21622 (left), 11.21623 (right)

Play: Ganryûjima Shôbu no Miyamoto
Theater: Kawarazaki
巌流島勝負宮本(がんりゅうじましょうぶのみやもと)
河原崎
1817、文化14、09・13
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.