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Actor Iwai Kumesaburô III as the Onnadate Danshichijima no Okaji, from the series Heroic Commoners in Kabuki (Rien kyokaku den)


「梨園侠客伝 女達団七じまのおかち」 三代目岩井粂三郎
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.2 x 23.8 cm (13 7/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42897
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hinohara, Utagawa Kunisada (Ôta Mus., 2016), p. 97
Signed Nanajûhassai Toyokuni hitsu
七十八歳豊国筆
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 7 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Matsushima Hori Masa
改印:亥七改
彫師:松島彫政
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.