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Actors Bandô Hyakunosuke as the Kamuro Midori (R), Sawamura Shozan (Sawamura Tanosuke III) as Urazato (C), and Nakamura Shikan IV as Tokijirô (L), with musicians, in the Jôruri Number Akegarasu Yuki no Urazato


「明烏夢泡雪」 「禿みどり 坂東百之助」 「浦里 沢村曙山」 「時次郎 中村芝翫」(四代目)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Katada Chôjirô (Hori Chô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1870 (Meiji 3), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36 × 70.4 cm (14 3/16 × 27 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41775a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 3 (1935), pp. 50-1
DescriptionPlay (finale, Jôruri): Akegarasu Yuki no Urazato, also given as Honobono to Yuki no Urazato
Theater: Morita
明烏雪浦里(あけがらすゆきのうらざと)ヵ 時朗雪浦里(ほのぼのとゆきのうらざと)ヵ
守田
Signed Kunichika hitsu (on each sheet)
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 6 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Katada Hori Chô
改印:午六改
彫師:片田彫長
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.