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Enjoying the Evening Cool in the Theater District at Dôtonbori: An Imaginary Scene (Dôtonbori Shibai-machi yûsuzumi, mitate), with Actors Nakamura Matsue III (R) and Sawamura Kunitarô II (L)


「道頓堀芝居町夕すゝみ」 「中村松江」(三代目)  「見立」 「沢村国太良」(二代目)
Ryûsai Shigeharu (Japanese, 1803–1853)
Publisher: Wataya Kihei (Wataki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1832 (Tenpô 3), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.3 × 50.8 cm (14 11/16 × 20 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36221a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 99; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #160
Description道頓堀芝居町夕すゝみ
見立
Signed Gyokuryûtei Shigeharu ga (on each sheet)
玉柳亭重春画
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.