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Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Soga no Jûrô Sukenari


九代目市村羽左衛門の曽我の十郎祐成
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1770 (Meiwa 7), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 29.9 x 13.5 cm (11 3/4 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18494
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 030-0020; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Bunchô list, #289 (complete diptych); Riccar Art Museum, Ippitsusai Bunchô ten (1978), #112; Ukiyo-e taisei 5 (1930), #230 (right) and #231 (left)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.18494 (left), 21.4726 (right); no VR

Play: Fuji no Yuki Kaikei Soga
Theater: Ichimura
富士雪会稽曽我(ふじのゆきかいけいそが)
市村
Signed Ippitsusai Bunchô ga
一筆齊文調画
Marks Artist's seal: Mori uji
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.