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Actor Nakamura Matsue I as Kasamori Osen (Kagiya Osen)


初代中村松江の笠森お仙
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1769 (Meiwa 6), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 29.7 x 13.3 cm (11 11/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18489
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #136
DescriptionPlay (second feature): Michiyuki Yukari no Hatsu-zakura
Play (main feature): Edo no Hana Wakayagi Soga
Theater: Ichimura
道行由縁の初桜(みちゆきたびのはつざくら)
江戸花陽向曽我(えどのはなわかやぎそが)
市村
Signed Ippitsusai Bunchô ga
一筆齊文調画
Marks Artist's seal: Mori uji
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.