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「夜無情浮世有様（よはなさけなくうきよのありさま） 横櫛のお富 きられ与三 太左衛門 蝙蝠安 かけ合せりふ」 三代目関三十郎の太左衛門、四代目尾上梅幸の横櫛のお富 (鯰絵）
The Cruel Conditions of the Floating World (Yo wa nasakenaku ukiyo no arisama): Mixed Lines (Kakeawase serifu) for Yokogushi no Otomi, Kirare Yosa, Taizaemon, and Kômori Yasu; Actors Seki Sanjûrô III as Taizaemon and Onoe Baikô IV as Yokogushi no Otomi (right sheet)
「夜無情浮世有様（よはなさけなくうきよのありさま） 横櫛のお富 きられ与三 太左衛門 蝙蝠安 かけ合せりふ」 三代目関三十郎の太左衛門、四代目尾上梅幸の横櫛のお富 (鯰絵）
Japanese
Edo period
about 1855 (Ansei 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 36.5 x 52.9 cm (14 3/8 x 20 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35952, 11.38623
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôkubo, Namazu-e (Nat'l. Mus. of J. History, 2021), #123; Tomizawa, Nishiki-e no chikara (2005), chart 4, #80, photo p. 90
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35952 (right), 11.38623 (left)
MFA impressions: 11.29507.15a-b, 11.35950VR (11.35950, 11.38605), 11.35952VR (11.35952, 11.38623)
Based on a performance of the play Yo was Nasake Ukiyo no Yokogushi at the Nakiamura Theater in Edo in the third month of 1853 (Kaei 6).
嘉永6年3月中村座「与話情浮名横櫛」の上演と配役を受けたもの。
MFA impressions: 11.29507.15a-b, 11.35950VR (11.35950, 11.38605), 11.35952VR (11.35952, 11.38623)
Based on a performance of the play Yo was Nasake Ukiyo no Yokogushi at the Nakiamura Theater in Edo in the third month of 1853 (Kaei 6).
嘉永6年3月中村座「与話情浮名横櫛」の上演と配役を受けたもの。
Signed
Unsigned
無款
無款
Marks
No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし
版元：なし
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印：なし
彫師：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: 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.
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.