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Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Akagihara Genkichi, from the series Mirror of Demonic People, Good and Evil (Zen'aku kijin kagami)


「善悪奇人鏡 赤木原源吉」(四代目市村家橘)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Blockcutter: Uemura Yasugorô (Hori Yasu) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 7th month (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 24 cm (14 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44442
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri et al., Edo no eiyu II (2010), #103; Mukai Nobuo, "Keiô yonen no Zen'aku kijin kagami," in Rekishi dokuhon, 1976.12
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragon 7 aratame (?)
Blockcutter's mark: Uemura Hori Yasu tô
改印:辰七改ヵ
彫師:上邑彫安刀
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.