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Season-opening Program (Kaomise banzuke) for the Nakamura Theater


中村座顔見世番付
Utagawa Shinzaemon (Japanese, active 1790s)
Publisher: Murayamaya Genbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1798 (Kansei 10), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 30.3 x 44.5 cm (11 15/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.27516
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa Toyoharu to sono jidai (1994), #190
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1777, 11.27516
1798、戊午、寛政10、11・01
劇場:  中村
座元: 中村勘三郎
Signed Eshi Utagawa Shinzaemon hitsu
絵師歌川新左ェ門筆
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.