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Actor Onoe Matsusuke I in a Double Role as the Ghost of Kohada Koheiji and Koheiji's Wife


「小はた小平次ぼうこん・同女房  ニ役 尾上松助 」(初代)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Shimizu (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1808 (Bunka 5), intercalary 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 23.1 cm (14 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25372
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Yamamura & Machida, Shibai nishiki-e shûsei (1919), #280
DescriptionPlay: Eiri Otogi-zôshi
Theater: Ichimura
彩入御伽草(えいりおとぎぞうし)
市村
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
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.