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Actors Yamashita Kinsaku II as the Nun Seigen (R) and Nakamura Jûzô II as Katagiri Yajûrô (L)


二代目山下金作の清玄尼  二代目中村十蔵の片桐弥十郎
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1772 (Meiwa 9/An'ei 1), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban diptych; 30.1 x 27.9 cm (11 7/8 x 11 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18884-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.18884 (left), 11.18885 (right); virtual record: 11.18884-5

MFA impressions: 11.18884-5 (complete diptych), 21.4204 (left sheet only)

Play: Keisei Momiji no Uchikake
Theater: Morita
けいせい紅葉襠(けいせいもみじのうちかけ)
森田
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.