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Actors Onoe Tamizô II as Ume no Yoshibei (R) and Arashi Rikaku II as Chôkichi (L), in Suda no Haru Geiko Katagi


「隅田春妓女容性」 「梅の由兵へ 尾上多見蔵」(二代目)  「長吉 嵐璃珏」(二代目)
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 24 x 36.4 cm (9 7/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36116a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 119; Kitagawa, ed., Kamigata yakusha-e gacho (2006), #51; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #066; Herwig, Heroes of the Kabuki Stage (2004), #29.3
DescriptionPlay: Suda no Haru Geiko Katagi
Theater: Kado
隅田春妓女容性

Signed Noriya Yoshitaki ga (on each sheet, but spelled differently)
糊家芳瀧画 のり家芳瀧画
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.