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Okazaki, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi): Actors Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Ôe Inabanosuke (R) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Usuyuki Dayû (L)


「東海道五十三次の内 岡崎」「大江因幡之助 市村羽左衛門」(十二代目) 「薄雲太夫 尾上菊五郎」(三代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Yoshimiya Sonokichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1835 (Tenpô 6), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.3 x 25.7 cm (14 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29152, 11.45186
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.29152 (right), 11.45168 (left)

Diptych jointly issued by two publishers, Yamaguchiya Tôbei (right sheet) and an unidentified publisher, possibly Yoshimiya Sonokichi (left sheet).

Play: Ume no Haru Gojûsan Tsugi
Theater: Ichimura
梅初春五十三駅(うめのはるごじゅうさんつぎ)
市村
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.