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Actors Bandô Mitsugorô III as Shinbei, a Vendor of White Sake (Shirozake-uri ) (R), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Agemaki's Sukeroku (L)


「白酒うり新兵衛 坂東三津五郎」(三代目) 「あげ巻の助六 尾上菊五郎」(三代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kawachiya Genshichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1819 (Bunsei 2), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.5 x 52 cm (15 3/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22901-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych (two left sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.22901 (left), 11.22902 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.15776VR (11.15776, 11.15777, 11.22903; complete triptych), 11.22901-2 (two left sheets)
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.