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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Actors Ichikawa Dannosuke V as Jinpachi's Wife (Nyôbô) Okiku and Sawamura Yujirô I as the Kamuro Namie


「甚八女房お菊」五代目市川団之助、「禿浪江」 初代沢村由次郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Hayashiya Shôgorô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 25.6 cm (14 5/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29245
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: *11.29245 (center sheet only; deaccessioned in 2019), 11.29259-61, 11.44202a-c

Play: Hitokanade Kodakara Soga
Theater: Nakamura
一曲奏子宝曽我(ひとかなでこだからそが)
中村
1856、安政03
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 4
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印:改、辰四
彫師:彫竹
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.