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Actors Ichikawa Ebizô as Mita no shi (R), Onoe Matsusuke I as Yamauba (C), and Iwai Hanshirô IV as Kaidômaru (L)


市川蝦蔵の三田ノ仕 尾上松助の山姥 四代目岩井四郎の怪童丸
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1795 (Kansei 7), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban triptych; 33 x 41.3 cm (13 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26704-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri et al., Edo no eiyû II (2010), #22 (two left sheets only)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.26704 (left), 11.26705 (center), 11.26706 (right)

Play: Osana Asobi Yamaji no Nishiki-e
Theater: Kawarazaki
稚遊山路の錦絵(おさなあそびやまじのにしきえ)
河原崎
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame (on left sheet only)
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.