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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as the Servant (Genin) Yasuke, actually Tashiro Yasubei


「下人八介 実は田代安兵衛 中村歌右ヱ門」(三代目)
Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Publisher: Ariwaradô Chûbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1822 (Bunsei 5), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.5 x 26.3 cm (15 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36272
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 92; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #344
DescriptionPlay: Ôishi-zuri Sakura Tanzaku
Theater: Naka
大石摺桜花短冊(おおいしずりさくらたんざく)

Signed Yoshikuni ga
よし国画
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.