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Actors Iwai Kumesaburô III as Jirô Kanja (R) and Azuma Ichinojô I as Sugibae (L)


「次郎冠者」三代目岩井粂三郎 「杉はゑ」初代吾妻市之丞
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1851 (Kaei 4), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.9 x 50.4 cm (14 1/2 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29095-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.29095 (right), 11.29096 (left)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura Zôshi
Theater: Nakamura
東山桜荘子(ひがしやまさくらぞうし)
中村
Signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (on right sheet), Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
香蝶楼豊国画 一陽斎豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Magome
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜、馬込
彫師:なし
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.