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Actor Bandô Mitsugorô III, cut from one sheet of an untitled series showing actors in six roles each


三代目坂東三津五郎
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1808 (Bunka 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 11 x 11.4 cm (4 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25291
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #169 (intact sheet)
DescriptionFrom the same sheet: 11.25319 (TR), 11.25323 (TL), 11.25274 (CR), 11.25291 (CL), 11.25317 (BR), 11.25320 (BL)

Possibly as Kakurega no Mohei, in Hanagoyomi Hirake Michiyuki, at the Morita Theater in 1809.1.
Signed (this picture unsigned)
無款
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.