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Actors Fujikawa Tomokichi III as the Wife (Nyôbô) Osai (R), Arashi Kichisaburô III as Sugiura Jûnai (C), and Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Ikeda Shôzaburô (L), in the play Hana no Maku Hisago no Kawarake


「華幕瓢箪盞 女房お斎 藤川友吉」(三代目)  「杉浦十内 嵐吉三郎」(三代目)  「池田庄三郎 実川延三郎」(初代)
Kinoshita Hironobu I (Japanese, active about 1851–1870)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 24.3 x 54.3 cm (9 9/16 x 21 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35084-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 117; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #400
DescriptionTriptych: 11.35084 (right), 11.35085 (center), 11.35086 (left)

Play: Hana no Maku Hisago no Kawarake
Theater: Naka
華幕瓢箪盞

Signed Hironobu (on right sheet), Hironobu ga (on center and left sheets)
広信 広信画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: 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.