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Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as Tsukubane no Otane (R) and Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Yodo Sakonnosuke (L)


三代目瀬川菊之丞のつく羽根のおたね  五代目市川団十郎の淀左近之助
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban diptych; 32.4 x 28.1 cm (12 3/4 x 11 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18776, 11.1886
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.18776 (left), 11.18836 (right)

Play: Sanjikkoku Yobune no Hajimari
Theater: Ichimura
三拾石艠始(さんじっこくよぶねのはじまり)
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.