Title page, from the series Actors for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Yakusha mitate Tôkaidô gojûsan eki), also called Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)

「役者見立　東海道五十三駅」　目録

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Printer: Ôumiya Kyûtarô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.4 x 24.8 cm (13 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of James J. Higginson

Accession Number59.1147.2

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T63-00 (with more colors), p. 160

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.29525.1, 11.43297, 59.1147.2

This not-for-sale sheet (possibly given away as a bonus gift when prints were purchased) identifies the actors (some deceased) shown in the 55 sheets of the original series, before the extra designs were added.
The impression illustrated in Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), has alternating shades of red and pink as background for the actors' names, but all three MFA impressions have color only in the border.
「東海道五十三次之内」シリーズの目録。

Signed Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga
一陽斎豊国画

Marks kinbaibai ("not for sale") seal
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Yokokawa Takejirô
Printer's mark: Surikô Ôumiya Kyûtarô

ProvenanceGift from estate of James J. Higginson through Mrs. Charles Jackson, March 26, 1959.