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Actors Nakamura Tomijûrô II as the Wet Nurse (Menoto) Shigenoi (R) and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Jinenjo no Sankichi (L)


「乳人重の井」二代目中村富十郎  「じねんぢよの三吉」十三代目市村羽左衛門
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.8 x 24.1 cm (14 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29976-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.29976 (left), 11.29977 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.29976-7, 11.43705a-b

No actual performance has been found that corresponds to this scene from the play Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna. Possibly advance publicity for the upcoming visit of Tomijûrô to Edo in the 9th month of 1853.
見立

該当する上演なし。<2>中村富十郎江戸下り前の予定稿ヵ。
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (on each sheet)
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Ox 6
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松、丑六
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: 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.