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Actor Arashi Tokusaburô III as Iwagawa Jirôkichi


「岩川次郎吉 嵐徳三郎」(三代目)
Gochôtei Sadamasu I (Kunimasu) (Japanese, active 1834–1852)
Japanese
Edo period
1839 (Tenpô 10), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban, left sheet of diptych; 37.5 x 25.9 cm (14 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35976
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 103; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #121
DescriptionPlay: Sekitori Senryo Nobori
Theater: Onishi
関取千両幟
大西
Signed Sadamasu ga, in toshidama cartouche
貞升画
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.