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Summer (Natsu): Actor Sawamura Tosshô I as a Boatman, from the series Dance Plays of the Four Seasons (Shiki shosagoto no uchi)


「四季所作事の内 夏 沢村訥升」 (初代沢村訥升の船頭)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1839 (Tenpô 10), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.2 cm (14 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37229
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Description則幸桜色薗(ときにさいわいさくらのいろどき)
四季詠☆歳(しきのながめまるにいのとし)、常磐津
夕立の猪牙(ゆうだちのちょき)
則幸桜色薗(ときにさいわいさくらのいろどき)
河原崎、二番目大切
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞 画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.