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Actors Iwai Hanshirô V as Orie (R) and Nakamura Utaemon III as the Manzai Dancer Tsuchi Jiemon (L)


「おりへ 岩井半四郎」(五代目)  「土地右衛門 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Sumimaruya Jinsuke (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.5 x 52.8 cm (15 3/16 x 20 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13652, 11.13740
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.13652 (right), 11.13740 (left)

Play: Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku
Theater: Nakamura
太平記忠臣講釈(たいへいきちゅうしんこうしゃく)
中村
Signed Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: kiwame, Igaya Kan'emon, Izumiya Ichibei
改印:極、伊賀、泉市
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.