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Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô I as Ume no Yoshibei and Sanjô Kantarô II as Ageha no Chokichi


初代沢村宗十郎の梅の由兵衛、二代目三条勘太郎 の揚羽の長吉
Torii Kiyonobu II (Japanese, active about 1725–1760)
Publisher: Mikawaya (1) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1736 (Kyôhô 21/Genbun 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 31 x 15 cm (12 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13215
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0142
DescriptionPlay: Yûkun Yoroi Soga
Theater: Nakamura
遊君鎧曽我(ゆうくんよろいそが)
中村
Signed Torii Kiyonobu hitsu
鳥居清信筆
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.