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Actors Arashi Kichizaburô III as Manjuya Tôkichi (R) and Onoe Kikujirô II as the Courtesan (Keisei) Yatsuhashi (L)


「万寿屋藤吉 嵐吉三郎」(三代目)  「けいせゐ八ツ橋 尾上菊次郎」(二代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Daikokuya Heikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1840 (Tenpô 11), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.1 x 50.6 cm (14 5/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40675a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay (second feature): Date Yukata Tsui no Iroage
Play (main feature): Igagoe Yomikiri Kôshaku
Theater: Nakamura
達浴衣一対色揚(だてゆかたついのいろあげ)
伊賀越読切講釈(いがごえよみきりこうしゃく)
中村、二番目
1840、天保11、06・21
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptions「踏わけていざや登らん富士詣 雪氷即吟」
「咲そめてその香もたかし菊畑 松亭主人即吟」
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.