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Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô I as Hosokawa Katsumoto, Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Ashikaga Yoshimasa, and Yamashita Kinsaku I as Ono no Otsû


初代沢村宗十郎の細川勝元、初代市川門之助の足利義政、初代山下金作の小野お通
Torii Kiyotada I (Japanese, active about 1720–1750)
Japanese
Edo period
1724 (Kyôhô 9), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Horizontal hosoban; 15.7 x 37.4 cm (6 3/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19169
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1290
DescriptionPlay: Taihei Okuni Kabuki
Theater: Nakamura
太平御国歌舞伎
中村
Signed Torii Kiyotada hitsu
鳥居清忠筆
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.