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Actors Sawamura Tosshô II as Taira Koremori (R), Bandô Hikosaburô V as Igami Gonta, and Nakamura Nakazô III as Sushiya Yazaemon (L)


「平これ盛」二代目沢村訥升  「いがみ権太」五代目 坂東彦三郎、「鮨屋弥左衛門」三代目中村仲蔵、「梶原かげ秀」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Wakasaya Jingorô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.5 × 48.3 cm (14 3/8 × 19 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41569a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-4464 (R), 100-4465 (L), and 100-4466 (the leftmost sheet, not in MFA)
DescriptionRight and center sheets of incomplete triptych. The left sheet shows Ôtani Tomoemon as Kajiwara Kagesue.

Play: Ichinomori Kujira no Ôyose
Theater: Morita
一守九字成大漁(いちのもりくじらのおおよせ)
守田
Signed Kunichika hitsu (on each sheet)
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 7 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯七改
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.