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Actor Sawamura Tosshô II as Mondo in Shiraito Mondo Kasane Tsuyu Neya no Sayokinu, from an untitled series of actor portraits on the backs of shamisens


「白糸主水 重褄閨の小夜衣 沢村訥升」 (二代目沢村訥升の主水)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Shôfûdô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 × 24.2 cm (14 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40577
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 403-0283
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.40572, 11.40577

Forms a pair with *11.39873 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.40575
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragon 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:辰正改
彫師:なし
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.