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Actor Nakamura Nakazô I as Kudô Suketsune


初代中村仲蔵の工藤祐経
Katsukawa Shunjô (Japanese, died in 1787)
Japanese
Edo period
1782 (Tenmei 2), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 32.9 x 14.6 cm (12 15/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18458
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Yamamura & Machida, Shibai nishiki-e shûsei (1919), #191 (complete triptych)
DescriptionCenter sheet of an incomplete triptych. The right sheet shows Yamashita Mangiku as Kewaizaka no Shôshô; the left sheet shows Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga Gorô.

Play: Nanakusa Yosooi Soga
Theater: Nakamura
七種粧曽我(ななくさよそおいそが)
中村
Signed Shunjô ga
春常画
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.