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Top: Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV as Funahashi Jirozaemon and Bandô Shûka I as Manjiya Osano; bottom: Actors Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Oume, Daughter (Musume) of the Aburaya


上 「船はし次郎左衛門」四代目中村歌右衛門 「万字屋おさの」初代坂東しうか 下 「福岡貢」五代目沢村長十郎 「油屋娘お梅」三代目岩井粂三郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1849 (Kaei 2), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Two horizontal chûban designs on uncut vertical ôban sheet; 36 x 24 cm (14 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40242
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay (second feature): Iseondo Koi no Netaba
Play (main feature): Hana no Homare Chikai no Tamadasuki
Theater: Nakamura
伊勢音頭恋寝刃(いせおんどこいのねたば)
花高誉誓仰環襷(はなのほまれちかいのたまだすき)
中村、二番目
1849、嘉永02、05・05
Signed Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (above), Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (below)
一陽斎豊国画、 香蝶楼豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、吉村
彫師:なし
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.