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Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Seigen and Takinaka Utagawa as Sakurahime


「市村宇左衛門 滝中歌川」 (市村宇左衛門の清玄と滝中歌川の桜姫)
Torii Kiyonobu II (Japanese, active about 1725–1760)
Publisher: Urokogataya Magobei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1740 (Genbun 5), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.3 x 14.6 cm (12 5/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19099
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0174; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 78
Signed Torii Kiyonobu hitsu
鳥居清信筆
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.