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Actors Nakamura Utaemon III as Matsunami Kurando (R) and Bandô Jûtarô I as the Footman (Yakko) Naruhei


「松浪蔵人 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)  「奴鳴平 坂東重太郎」(初代)
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1831 (Tenpô 2), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.3 x 51 cm (14 11/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35301-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 98; Kitagawa, ed., Gacho (2006), #18; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #266; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Mus., Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #447 (R only)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.35301 (right), 11.35302 (left)

Play: Keisei Shigeshige Yawa
Theater: Naka
けいせい繁夜話

Signed Shunkôsai Hokuei ga (on each sheet)
春江斎北英画
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.