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Actors Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Arajishi Otokonosuke (R) and Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Nikki Danjô (L)


「荒獅子男之助 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)  「仁木だん正 松本幸四郎」(五代目)
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.9 × 51.5 cm (14 15/16 × 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36292a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 90; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #100; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #70
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35457-8, 11.36292a-b

Play: Hagi wa Sendai Na wa Matsumoto
Theater: Naka
秋花先代名松本(はぎはせんだいなはまつもと)

Signed Shunkôsai Hokushû ga
春好斎北洲画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: 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.