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Actors Arashi Kichisaburô III as Ise no Shinkurô (R) and JItsukawa Enzaburô I as Imagawa Otokonosuke (L), in Keisei Ômonguchi


「伊勢新九郎 嵐吉三郎」(三代目)  「今川男之助 実川延三郎」(初代) 「契情廓大門」
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Edo period
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 25.1 x 36.8 cm (9 7/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36084a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 116
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Ômonguchi
Theater: Naka
契情廓大門(けいせいおおもんぐち)

Signed Yoshitaki ga (on each sheet)
芳瀧画
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.