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Actors Ichikawa Udanji I as Koshimoto Okaru (R), Arashi Rikan IV as Hayano Kanpei (C), and Onoe Tamizô II as Sagisaka Bannai (L), in Act 3 of Kanadehon Chûshingura


「仮名手本忠臣蔵 三ノ切」 「こし元おかる 市川右団次」(初代)  「早野勘平 嵐璃寛」(四代目)  「鷺坂伴内 尾上多見蔵」(二代目)
Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki (Japanese, 1841–1899)
Japanese
Meiji era
1874 (Meiji 7), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 24.2 x 53.1 cm (9 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36172a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 122; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 5 (2005), #487
DescriptionPlay: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Theater: Kado
仮名手本忠臣蔵

Signed Yoshitaki hitsu (on each sheet)
芳瀧筆
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.