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Actors Arashi Rikan III as Iwagawa's Wife (Nyôbô) Otowa (R) and Onoe Tamizô II as Iwagawa (L) in the Play Senryô Nobori


「千両幟」 「女房おとは 嵐璃寛」(三代目)  「岩川 尾上多見造」(二代目)
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Kinkodô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 25 x 36.9 cm (9 13/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35782a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 111; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #590
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.35782a-b, 11.41984a-b, 11.41985a-b

Play: Sekitori Senryô Nobori
Theater: Kado
関取千両幟(せきとりせんりょうのぼり)

Signed Kunikazu (on each sheet)
国員
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.