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The Element Metal: Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Both the Apprentice (Detchi) Chôkichi and the Wife (Nyôbô) Koume, in Sumida no Haru Geiko Katagi, from an untitled series of Five Elements


見立五行 「金 隅田春妓女容性」 「丁児長吉 嵐理かく」(二代目)、「女房小梅 嵐璃珏」(二代目)
Hasegawa Munehiro (Japanese, active 1848–1867)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.5 x 18.3 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35985
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 113; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #346
DescriptionPlay: Sumida no Haru Geiko Katagi
Theater: Kado
隅田春妓女容性

Signed Munehiro ga
宗広画
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.