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Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as as Katô Masakiyo


「加藤清正 中村歌右衛門」(四代目)
Gosôtei Hirosada (Japanese, active 1826–1863, died about 1865)
Japanese
Edo period
1851 (Kaei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.9 x 18.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35647
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 107
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Kiyome no Funauta
Theater: Naka
けいせい清船諷(けいせいきよめのふなうた)

Signed Hirosada
広貞
Marks Publisher's mark: not fully legible; perhaps either Kinkadô Konishi or Kinkodô.
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.