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Actor Nakamura Fukusuke II as Iinuma Katsugorô, from an untitled series


「飯沼勝五郎 中村福助」(二代目)
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Shimizu Ryûzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.9 × 25.5 cm (14 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16276
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), p. 170, #5; Utagawa ha (Kobijutsu special issue 7, 1986), #329
Signed Yoshitora ga
芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Dog 10 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Ryûzô
改印:戌十改
彫師:彫工柳三
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.