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Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Plays at the Ichimura Theater: Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku, Shinzô Honchômaru


市村座辻番付  「太平記忠臣講釈(たいへいきちゅうしんこうしゃく)」、「新艘本朝丸(しんぞうほんちょうまる)」
Artist unknown, Japanese
Publisher: Fukuchi Mohei (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Jûgorô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1802 (Kyôwa 2), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 28.5 x 38 cm (11 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.27689
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku
Play: Shinzô Honchômaru
Theater: Ichimura
1802、壬戌、享和02、05・19
市村
太平記忠臣講釈(たいへいきちゅうしんこうしゃく)、1番目 大序より大切8段目迄
新艘本朝丸(しんぞうほんちょうまる)、2番目、上下2艘、3幕 水仕合之段迄

口上に「五月節句より相始可奉入御覧処御贔屓之瀬川路考病気に付興行延引」し「役者無人」の興行であること、「直段も少々引下ケ興行仕」ことなどの記述あり。
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.