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Actor Iwai Hanshirô V as Kasane


「岩井半四郎」(五代目)
Katsukawa Shuntei (Shôkôsai) (Japanese, 1770–1824)
Japanese
Edo period
1808 (Bunka 5), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 17.2 x 11.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25716
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPossibly from the same sheet: 11.25737 (TR), 11.25716 (TL), 11.25710 (BR), 11.25706 (BL)

Play: Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki
Theater: Ichimura
伊達競阿国戯場(だてくらべおくにかぶき)
市村
Signed Shuntei ga
春亭画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.