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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Matsunami Kurando


「松浪蔵人 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Ryûsai Shigeharu (Japanese, 1803–1853)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1831 (Tenpô 2), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.6 x 24.8 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36210
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 98; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #450; Schwaab, Osaka Prints (1989), #142; Keyes 1973, #320, photo p. 244
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Shigeshige Yawa
Theater: Naka
けいせい繁夜話(けいせいしげしげやわ)

Signed Gyokuryûtei Shigeharu ga
玉柳亭重春画
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.