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Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Plays at the Miyako Theater: Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga, Hatsu Akebono Kaomise Soga


都座辻番付 「花菖蒲文禄曽我(はなあやめぶんろくそが)」、「初曙[観曽我]」(はつあけぼのかおみせそが)
Japanese
Edo period
1794 (Kansei 6), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 33 x 45.6 cm (13 x 17 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.27338
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM, Sharaku (2011), #204 (Waseda impr.)
DescriptionPlay: Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga
Play: Hatsu Akebono Kaomise Soga
Theater: Miyako

Another publisher, illegible, at far right.
1794、甲寅、寛政06、05・05

花菖蒲文禄曽我(はなあやめぶんろくそが)、初曙後日狂言、7幕続
大名題 初曙[観曽我][はつあけぼのかおみせそが]

坂田半五郎十三回忌。口上に「亀山敵討」とあり。
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.