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Actors Onoe Tamizô II as Satomi Isuke (R) and Arashi Wakadayû as Taruya Osen (L), in Meisaku Kiriko no Akebono


「里見伊助 尾上多見蔵」(二代目) 「樽やおせん 嵐和歌太夫」 「名作切籠曙」
Kinoshita Hironobu I (Japanese, active about 1851–1870)
Publisher: Kinokuniya Yasubei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 25.4 × 36 cm (10 × 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16226.10a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #404
DescriptionPlay: Meisaku Kiriko no Akebono
Theater: Kado
「名作切籠曙」


The blocks were recycled around 1870 for another production of the play, with the face and name of the actor in the left sheet changed; see 11.35057-8 .

Album: 11.16226.1 to .14a-c
Sticker inside back cover reads"No. 10, W.S.B."
Signed Hironobu (on each sheet)
広信
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.