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Actor Ichikawa Sadanji I as Kaôshô no Tachi, from the series A Shuihuzhuan of Actors (Haiyû Suikoden)


「花和尚の達 市川左団次」(初代) 「俳優水滸伝(はいゆうすいこでん)」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Morimoto Junzaburô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Watanabe Eizô (Hori Ei) (Japanese, 1833–1901)
Japanese
Meiji era
1873 (Meiji 6), February (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.9 × 25.1 cm (14 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41671
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 2 (?)
Blockcutter's mark: Watanabe Hori Ei
改印:酉弐ヵ
彫師:渡辺彫栄
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.