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Actors Onoe Baikô IV as Shizuka Gozen (R) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Satô Tadanobu (L)


「しつか御せん」四代目尾上梅幸 「佐藤忠のふ」四代目中村歌右衛門
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847 (Kôka 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.5 x 50.3 cm (14 3/8 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43772a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22372-3 (L sheet mouth open), 11.43772a-b (L sheet mouth closed)

Play (shosa, opening of Act 4): Shinkyoku Hatsune no Tsuzumi
Play (main feature): Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura
Theater: Kawarazaki
新曲魁音鼓(しんきょくはつねのつづみ) 富本
義経千本桜(よしつねせんぼんざくら)、上の巻
河原崎、四段目の口
1847、弘化04
Signed Hanmoto no ôju Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
梓元の應需豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
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.