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Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Soga no Gorô (R) and Segawa Kikunojô III as Shôshô (L)


九代目市村宇左衛門の曽我五郎  三代目瀬川菊之丞の少将
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1779 (An'ei 8), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban diptych; 33 x 30 cm (13 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18937-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.18937 (left), 11.18938 (right); virtual record: 11.18937-8

Play: Chô Chidori Wakayagi Soga
Theater: Ichimura
蝶千鳥若栄曽我(ちょうちどりわかやぎそが)
市村
Signed Shunshô ga (on each sheet)
春章画
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.