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Actors Iwai Kumesaburô III as Innami Kazuma (R) and Nakamura Shikan IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (L)


「印南数馬 岩井粂三郎」(三代目) 「大高主殿 中村芝翫」(四代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1862 (Bunkyû 2), intercalary 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.9 x 50.4 cm (14 1/8 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40914a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Tsukimi no Hare Meiga no Ichijiku
Theater: Ichimura
月見瞻名画一軸(つきみのはれめいがのいちじく)
市村
1862、文久02
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (on each sheet)
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Dog intercalary 8 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:戌閏八改
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.