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Actor Onoe Kikugorô V, poetry name Baikô, as Gofukuya Seishichi


「呉服屋清七 五代目尾上菊五郎 俳名 梅幸」
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Hiranoya Shinzô (Aikindô)
Blockcutter: Shimizu Ryûzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1869 (Meiji 2), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 × 24.5 cm (14 1/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45479
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), p. 170, #12; Matsui Hideo, article in Ukiyo-e geijutsu 144 (2002), color pl. and pp. 101-5
DescriptionPlay: Hototogisu Amayo no Minokasa
Theater: Nakamura
百音鳥雨夜簑笠(ほととぎすあまよのみのかさ)、五幕目
中村
明治02(1869)・ 04・17
Signed Yoshitora ga
芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Snake 4 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Shimizu Ryûzô tô
改印:巳四改
彫師:清水柳三刀
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.