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Actors Ichikawa Kuzô III as Tamajima Kihei (R) and Nakamura Shikan IV as Shimobe Gunpei (L)


「玉島喜兵衛 市川九蔵」(三代目) 「下部軍平 中村芝翫」(四代目)
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.4 × 50.9 cm (14 3/4 × 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.845-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 00.845 (left), 00.846 (right)
Signed Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑正改
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)