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Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Inukai Genpachi in Act 4 of Yatsu no Hanafusa


「犬飼現八 嵐璃珏」(二代目) 「八花魁 四口」
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.3 x 18.1 cm (9 9/16 x 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37052
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 109; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #554
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Yatsu no Hanafusa
Theater: Kado
けいせい八花魁

Signed Kunikazu
国員
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.