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Toba-e Cartoon: Act 1, from the series The Comical Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Dôke Chûshingura)


「道化忠臣蔵 大序」
Utagawa Sadashige (Japanese, active 1810s–1830s)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 11 × 16.9 cm (4 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45399.32
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom a scrapbook including Toba-e cartoons, surimono, miscellaneous ukiyo-e prints, and a few senjafuda.
Signed Sadashige ga
貞しけ画
Marks No censor's seal
No publisher's mark
改印:なし
版元: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.