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Actors Segawa Rokô IV as Yatsuhashi and Sawamura Gennosuke I as Kibun (Kinokuniya Bunzô)


「八ッ橋 瀬川路考」(四代目)、「紀文 沢村源之助 」(初代)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japanese
Edo period
1811 (Bunka 8), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 25.3 cm (14 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13710
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 001-0217
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13710, 17.3210.9

Play: Hana Shôbu Sano ni Yatsuhashi
Theater: Nakamura
花菖蒲佐野八橋(はなしょうぶさのにやつはし)
中村
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Moriya Jihei
No publisher's mark
改印:極、森治
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.