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Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as Yasukata and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Utô, with chanters Tomimoto Buzendayû and Tomimoto Itsukidayû, and accompanist Namizaki Tokuji


三代目瀬川菊之丞の安方、四代目岩井半四郎の善知鳥、富本豊前太夫、富本斎宮太夫、名見崎徳治 (校合摺)
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1782 (Tenmei 2), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 27 cm (15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30355
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #52, pl. 230 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #67; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #422, pl. LXXIX
DescriptionPlay (jôruri): Mutsumashitsuki Koi no Tetori (Opportunism in Love in the First Month of the Year)
Play (kaomise): Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode
Theater: Nakamura
睦月恋手取(むつましつきこひのてとり)
五代源氏貢振袖(ごだいげんじみつぎのふりそで)
中村
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: 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.