Actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Tsubone Iwafuji (R) and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Ohatsu (L) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Tsubone Iwafuji (R) and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Ohatsu (L)

Actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Tsubone Iwafuji (R) and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Ohatsu (L)

「局岩ふじ　中村芝翫」（四代目）　「お初　沢村田之助」（三代目）

Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Yorozuya Zentarô (Manzen)

Japanese

Edo period

1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37 × 50.2 cm (14 9/16 × 19 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.856-7

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 00.856 (left), 00.857 (right)

Play: Momochidori Sakigake Soga
Theater: Morita
百鵆魁曽我（ももちどりさきがけそが）
守田

Signed Kunichika ga (on each sheet)
国周画

Marks Censor's seal: Ox 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：丑正改
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)