Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Ôiso: Actors Tanosuke (Sawamura Tanosuke III) as Tora and Tosshô (Sawamura Tosshô II) as Jûrô, No. 9 from the series Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô] (Gojûsan tsugi no uchi)


「五十三次の内 大礒 九」「とら 田之助」(三代目沢村田之助)、「十郎 訥升」(二代目沢村訥升)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1871 (Meiji 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 17.3 × 11.5 cm (6 13/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45800.13
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Goat 7 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:未七改
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.