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Actors Bandô Mitsugorô III as Kumagai Jirô (R) and Segawa Kikunojô V as His Wife (Nyôbô) Sagami (L)


「熊谷次郎 坂東三津五郎」(三代目) 「女房さがみ 瀬川菊之丞」(五代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Matsumura Tatsuemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1825 (Bunsei 8), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.2 x 50.8 cm (14 5/8 x 20 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29710-1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.29710 (left), 11.29711 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.29710-1, 11.40672a-b

Play: Ichinotani Futaba Gunki
Theater: Ichimura
一谷嫩軍記(いちのたにふたばぐんき)
市村
1825、文政08、07・17
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
五渡亭国貞画
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.