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Jurô: Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as a Traveling Puppeteer (Kugutsu), from the series Parodies of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune in Matching Pictures (Ekyôdai mitate Shichifuku)


「絵兄弟見立七婦く 寿老」 初代中村福助の傀儡師
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.4 x 24.2 cm (13 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42288
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Herwig, Heroes of the Kabuki Stage (2004), #7
Description見立
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、辰八
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.