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Actor Bandô Mitsugorô VI as Kijin Omatsu, from the series Actors as Underworld Characters in Hit Plays (Isa shiranami atari gôketsu)


「「俳優白浪当達者 鬼神於松 坂東三津五郎」(六代目)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Izutsuya Shôkichi, Japanese
Blockcutter: Katada Chôjirô (Hori Chô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 × 25 cm (14 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42948
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-2198; Newland, Time Present and Time Past (1999), #40
DescriptionThe censor's seal is mirror-image reversed.
Signed Kunichika ga
国周画
Marks Censor's seal: Rat 5 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Katada Hori Chô
改印:子五改
彫師:片田彫長
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.