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Actors Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Ude no Kisaburo, Ichikawa Yonezô IV as Inuzuka Shino, and Ichikawa Udanji I as Aburaya Osome, from the series Complete Compendium of Portraits of Actors Old and New (Kokon haiyû nigao taizen)


「古今俳優似顔大全」「高島家系譜」「腕の喜三郎 市川小団次 俳名米升」(四代目市川小団次)、「犬塚信乃 市川米蔵」(四代目市川米蔵)、「油屋お染 市川右段次」(初代市川右団次)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Hirookaya Kôsuke (Kikujudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 24.9 cm (14 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29920
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Zôho Kokon haiyû nigao taizen (1998), p. 44, #35
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.29920, 11.45392.30
Signed Nanajûhassai Toyokuni hitsu, in toshidama cartouche
七十八歳豊国筆(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥九改
彫師:なし
Inscriptions画中「七代目団十郎門弟 幼名米蔵 改米十郎弘化元辰年小団次ト改ル」(四代目市川小団次)、「米升門人 二代目市川米蔵」(四代目市川米蔵)、「米升の男 初名福太郎 改右段次ト云 俳名米子」(初代市川右団次)
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.