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Actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I as the fox Tadanobu


「狐忠のぶ 実川延若」(初代)
Ichiryûtei Toyohide (Japanese, active 1839–1863)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 x 18.5 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35253
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 117; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #223
DescriptionPlay: Hanayagura Hitome Senbon
Theater: Chikugo
花櫓詠千本
筑後
Signed Toyohide
豊秀
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 29, 2004)

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.