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Actor Iwai Kumesaburô III as the Concubine (Aishô) Oryû no Kata, from the series Mirrors for Collage Pictures in the Modern Style (Imayô oshi-e kagami)


「今様押絵鏡 愛妾於柳の方」 三代目岩井粂三郎
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), intercalary 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, creped
Dimensions Vertical ôban, creped; 22.0 x 15.9 cm
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.11.5764.9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.799, RES.11.5764.9

Play: Kagamiyama Gonichi no Iwafuji
Theater: Ichimura

Album: RES.11.5764.1 to .20
加賀見山再岩藤(かがみやまごにちのいわふじ)
市村
1860、安政07
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey intercalary 3 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Yokokawa Hori Take
改印:申壬三改
彫師:横川彫竹
Inscriptions「風なりに結んてみたる柳かな 久女三」
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.