Ofusa and Tokubei in the Izutsuya Scene from Kasane Izutsu, New Edition, Part 1 (Shinpan, Ofusa Tokubei, Kasane izutsu, jô, Izutsuya no dan), from an untitled series of jôruri libretti
「新はん おふさ徳兵衛 重井筒 上 井筒屋の段」
Japanese
Edo period
about early 1830s (early Tenpô era)
Artist Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864), Publisher Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Catalogue Raisonné
Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #62/1; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 4, Victoria and Albert Museum I (1989), fig. 161; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #92; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-76
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 25.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Accession Number
11.29697
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
MFA impressions: 11.15504, 11.26967, RES.54.187.32
背景は浄瑠理本六行本。
Signed
Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画
Markings
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance
By 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.
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection