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Actors Arashi Kichisaburô II as both Taga no Taishô and Torii Matasuke (R), and Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Mochizuki Genzô (L)


「多加ノ太正・鳥居又助 嵐吉三郎」(二代目)  「望月源蔵 市川鰕十郎」(初代)
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Publisher: Shioya Chôbei
Japanese
Edo period
1818 (Bunka 15/Bunsei 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38 x 51.1 cm (14 15/16 x 20 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35123-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e ten (2014), #357; Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 88; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #207
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35123 (left), 11.35124 (right)

Play: Kagamiyama Kuruwa no Kikigaki
Theater: Naka
加々見山廓写本(かがみやまくるわのききがき)

Signed Gigadô Ashiyuki ga (on each sheet)
戯画堂芦ゆき画
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.