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Actor Iwai Kumesaburô III (?) as Miura no Takao and Ichikawa Ichizô III (?) as Sakingo Yorikane, from the series Matches for Thirty-six Selected Poems (Mitate sanjûrokku sen)


「見立三十六句撰」 「三浦の高尾」三代目岩井粂三郎ヵ、「左金吾頼兼」三代目市川市蔵ヵ
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 24.6 cm (13 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25086
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.25086, *11.29801 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.30040
Signed Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga
一陽斎豊国画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 11
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、辰十一
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem, by Takao: Kimi wa ima/ Komagata atari/ [hototogisu (in pictorial form)]
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.