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Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Mita no Kakae (R) and Iwai Matsunosuke I as Kaidômaru (L)


「三田の仕 市川団十郎」(七代目)  「怪童丸 沢村松之助」(初代)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1813 (Bunka 10), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.3 x 52.8 cm (15 1/16 x 20 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13716-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.13716 (left), 11.13717 (right)

Play (shosa, finale of Part 2): Oyakozure Eda no Uguisu
Play (main feature): Modoribashi Sena ni Gohiiki
Theater: Ichimura
親子連枝鴬(おやこづれえだのうぐいす) 常磐津
戻橋背御摂(もどりばしせなにごひいき)
市村、二番目大切
Signed Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Tsuruya Kinsuke
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.