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Actor Segawa Rokô IV as Iga no Tsubone


「いがのつぼね 瀬川路考」(四代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 26.3 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13660
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Another print of the same actor in the same role: Waseda db 100-9081
DescriptionUnidentified publisher's mark.

Play: Edo-zakura Megumi no Takanori
Theater: Nakamura
江戸桜恩潤高徳(えどざくらめぐみのたかのり)
中村
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Tsuruya Kinsuke
改印:極、鶴金
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.