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Flower: Actor Nakamura Kanjaku II as Sasaki Gennosuke, from the series Birds and Flowers, Wind and Moon (Kachô fûgetsu no uchi)


「花鳥風月ノ内 花」 「佐々木源之助 中村翫雀」(二代目)
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 x 19.2 cm (9 13/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37892
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 112
DescriptionPlay: Nagara Chôja Uguisu-zuka
Theater: Horie
長柄長者黄鳥墳(ながらちょうじゃうぐいすづか)
堀江
Signed Kunikazu
国員
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.