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Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Hatsu Midori Saiwai Soga at the Kawarazaki Theater


河原崎座辻番付 「初緑幸曽我(はつみどりさいわいそが)」
Japanese
Edo period
1791 (Kansei 3), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 41.8 x 29 cm (16 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.27459
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1541, 11.27459

Play: Hatsu Midori Saiwai Soga
Theater: Kawarazaki
1791、辛亥、寛政03、02・07
河原崎
初緑幸曽我(はつみどりさいわいそが)、2番目迄、4番続
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.