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Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Igagoe Yomikiri Kôshaku at the Nakamura Theater


中村座辻番付 「伊賀越読切講釈(いがごえよみきりこうしゃく)」
Japanese
Edo period
1840 (Tenpô 11), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 30.1 x 39.2 cm (11 7/8 x 15 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28343
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.27903, 11.28343

Tsuji banzuke advertising the kabuki play "Igagoe yomikiri kôshaku" that was staged at the Nakamura Theater (Edo) from around the 7th day of the 5th lunar month of Tenpô 11 (1840).
「伊賀越読切講釈」 いがごえよみきりこうしゃく
中村座、江戸
天保11(1840) ・05月 ・07日より
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.