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Actors Bandô Hikosaburô III as Asahina and Iwai Kiyotarô II as Ganryû's Daughter Otaka (?)


三代目坂東彦三郎の朝比奈、二代目岩井喜代太郎の岸柳娘おたかヵ
Katsukawa Shun'ei (Japanese, 1762–1819)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1792 (Kansei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 29.4 x 13.5 cm (11 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18251
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné This scene illustrated: Kabuki nendaiki (1926), p. 478
DescriptionPlay: Wakamurasaki Edokko Soga
Theater: Ichimura
若紫江戸子曽我(わかむらさきえどっこそが)
市村
Signed Shun'ei ga
春英画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.