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Actor Nakamura Nakazô I as a Shirabyôshi Dancer (?)


初代中村仲蔵の白拍子
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1783 (Tenmei 3), 8th month (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 29.6 x 13.2 cm (11 5/8 x 5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18946
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 1 (1960), #934
DescriptionPlay (shosa): Edo Ganoko Musume Dôjô-ji (?)
Play (main feature): Keisei Katabira-ga-tsuji
Theater: Ichimura
東鹿子娘道成寺(えどかのこむすめどうじょうじ)
傾城帷子辻(けいせいかたびらがつじ)
市村
Signed Shunshô ga
春章画
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.