Actor Arashi Rikan IV as Yaegaki-hime in Honchô Nijûshi Kô – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actor Arashi Rikan IV as Yaegaki-hime in Honchô Nijûshi Kô

Actor Arashi Rikan IV as Yaegaki-hime in Honchô Nijûshi Kô

「本朝二十四孝」「八重垣姫　あらし璃寛」（四代目）

Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1870 (Meiji 3), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24 x 17.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession Number08.542.26

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints for the same play: Ikeda bunko 5, #365-6

DescriptionPlay: Honchô Nijûshi Kô
Theater: Chikugo
本朝二十四孝
筑後

Signed Yoshitaki ga
芳瀧画

ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 17, 2007)