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Actors Kataoka Gadô II as Sukune Tarô (R) and Nakamura Tomijûrô II as the Widow (Kôshitsu) Kakuju (L)


「宿祢太良 片岡我童」(二代目) 「後室覚寿 中村富十郎」(二代目)
Hasegawa Sadanobu I (Japanese, 1809–1879)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1841 (Tenpô 12), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37 x 50.2 cm (14 9/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36454a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 104; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #044; Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #38-54
DescriptionPlay: Tenmangû Natane no Gokû
Theater: Naka
天満宮菜種御供

Signed Hasegawa Sadanobu ga
長谷川貞信画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: 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.