Superb Edo Pictures Illustrating Dances (Odori keiyô Edo-e no sakae): Interior of an Imaginary Theater with a Performance of Shibaraku

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Superb Edo Pictures Illustrating Dances (Odori keiyô Edo-e no sakae): Interior of an Imaginary Theater with a Performance of Shibaraku

「踊形容江戸絵栄」

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Nôshûya Yasubei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1858 (Ansei 5), 7th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 × 74.3 cm (14 9/16 × 29 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016

Accession Number2016.947a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), #86; Herwig, Heroes of the Kabuki Stage (2004), #28; Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #127

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.44263a-c, 2016.947

Signed Ichiyôsai Hinashi Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
一陽斎雛師豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: Horse 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印：午七
彫師：なし

ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)