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Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as Ôhara Takematsu, from the series Mirrors for Collage Pictures in the Modern Style (Imayô oshi-e kagami)


「今様押絵鏡 大原武松」 初代中村福助
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 24.8 cm (14 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40950
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Kinpeibai Soga no Tamamono
Theater: Nakamura
金瓶梅曽我松賜(きんぺいばいそがのたまもの)
中村
1860、安政07
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Yokokawa Hori Take
改印:申二改
彫師:横川彫竹
Inscriptions「早蕨の虎にはにふき拳かな 児雀」
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.