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Actors Nakamura Shikan II as Tsurikago Sayanosuke (R) and Nakamura Tomijûrô II as His Wife Otomi (L)


「釣籠鮓弥介 中村芝翫」(二代目)  「女房おさと 中村富十郎」(二代目)
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1835 (Tenpô 6), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.6 x 52.7 cm (15 3/16 x 20 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35261-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 101; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #535
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35261 (right), 11.35262 (left)

Play: Hanayagura Hitome Senbon
花櫓詠吉野(はなやぐらひとめせんぼん)
Signed Shunbaisai Hokuei ga (on each sheet)
春梅斎北英画
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.