Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as En'ya Hangan (R) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (L)


「塩谷判官」八代目市川団十郎  「大星由良之助」四代目坂東三津五郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Daikokuya Heikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847 (Kôka 4), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.4 x 51 cm (14 5/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43757a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kurahashi, Edo kabuki no jôhô bunkashi (2021), p. 399, fig. 10
DescriptionPlay: Chûshin Meimei Kikigaki Zôsho
Theater: Nakamura
忠臣列撰随筆蔵(ちゅうしんめいめいききがきぞうしょ)
中村
1847、弘化04
Signed Ôju Toyokuni ga (on right sheet), Hanmoto no ôju Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
應需豊国画 梓元の應需豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
彫師:なし
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.