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Actors, from right: Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Nagoya Sanza, Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fuwa Banzaemon, Nakayama Nanshi II as Katsuragi, and Mimasu Daigorô IV as Sasaki Kurando, in Act 9 of Inazuma Sôshi


「稲妻双紙 巻ノ九」 「名古屋山三」初代実川延三郎 「不破伴左衛門」四代目中村歌右衛門 「かつら木」二代目中山南枝 「佐々木蔵人」四代目三枡大五郎
Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)
Japanese
Edo period
1850 (Kaei 3), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban tetraptych; 25.1 x 72.9 cm (9 7/8 x 28 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35567a-c, 11.41929
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 106; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #317
DescriptionTetraptych: 11.35567a-c (three left sheets), 11.41929 (right sheet)

MFA impressions: 11.35567VR (11.35567a-c, 11.4192), 11.35597a-d

Play: Satomoyô Kabuki no Inazuma
Theater: Naka
花街模様劇稲妻

Signed Hirosada (on each sheet)
広貞
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.