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Puppeteer (Dezukai) Yoshida Hyôkichi from Edo (Edo nobori) Performing a Grand Finale Dance of Nine Changes (Ôkiri shosagoto kyûhenge), a Great Hit at the Goryô Theater


「出づかい 江戸登り吉田兵吉」 「大切所作事九変化」 「御霊 大あたり/\」
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Publisher: Kichi (3) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1831 (Tenpô 2), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.7 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35013
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 99
DescriptionPlay: Hanakazari Yayoi no Mikuruma
Theater: Goryô (Shrine)
錦旧☆御所車(はなかざりやよいのみくるま)
御霊
Signed Gigadô Ashiyuki ga
戯画堂芦ゆき画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 29, 2004)

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.