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Actors Onoe Kikugorô I as Kudô Saemon Suketsune (?) (R) and Ôtani Hiroji III as the Footsoldier (Ashigaru) Shinbei (?) (L)


初代尾上菊五郎の工藤左衛門尉祐経ヵ  三代目大谷広次の足軽新平ヵ
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1773 (An'ei 2), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban diptych; 29.7 x 27.9 cm (11 11/16 x 11 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18882-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDIptych: 11.18882 (left), 11.18883 (right); virtual record: 11.18882-3

Play: Edo no Haru Meisho Soga
Theater: Ichimura
江戸春名所曽我(えどのはるめいしょそが)
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.