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Mitsuke: (Actor Bandô Shûka I as) Shizuka, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)


「東海道五十三次の内 見附 しづか」 初代坂東しうか
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Izutsuya Shôkichi, Japanese
Blockcutter: Koizumi Minokichi (Hori Mino) (Japanese, 1833–1906)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.4 x 24.8 cm (13 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of James J. Higginson
Accession Number59.1147.120
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T63-29, pp. 139, 166
DescriptionStation no. 29.

MFA impressions: 11.29416, 11.29495, 11.29525.20, 11.43248, 59.1147.120
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 3, shita-uri
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Mino
改印:米良、渡辺、子三、シタ売
彫師:彫巳の
ProvenanceGift from estate of James J. Higginson through Mrs. Charles Jackson, March 26, 1959.