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Actor Arashi Tominosuke, from Shijô in Kyoto (Kyô Shijô kudari), at the Nakamura Theater


「中むら座 京四条下り あらし富之助」
Yamamoto Yoshinobu (Japanese, active about 1745–58)
Publisher: Maruya Kuzaemon
Japanese
Edo period
1756

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 31 x 14 cm (12 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19203
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTominosuke returned to Edo from Kyoto in the fall of 1756.

Theater: Nakamura
Possibly as Namiginu in the kaomise drama Masakado Shôzoku no Enoki.
Signed Yamamoto Yoshinobu hitsu
山本義信筆
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.