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No. 22 (Actor Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke), from the series The Life of Ôboshi the Loyal (Seichû Ôboshi ichidai banashi)


「誠忠大星一代話 二十ニ」 五代目沢村宗十郎の大星由良之助
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Miyakozawa
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 × 25.4 cm (14 3/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36779.23
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22080, 11.29645, 11.36779.23, 11.42838

Album: 11.36779.1-72
Signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga
香蝶楼豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.