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Actors Arashi Rikan III as Yamauba and Arashi Rikaku II as Kintoki


「山うは」三代目嵐璃寛、「金時」二代目嵐璃珏
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.5 x 18.5 cm (10 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37885
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 111
DescriptionPlay: Komochi Yamanba Iohata NIshiki
Theater: Kado
嫗山姥五百機錦(こもちやまんばいおはたにしき)

Signed Kunikazu
国員
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.