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Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Plays at the Nakamura Theater: Kanadehon Chûshingura, Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan


中村座辻番付 「仮名手本忠臣蔵(かなでほんちゅうしんぐら)」、「東海道四谷怪談(とうかいどうよつやくわいだん)」
Japanese
Edo period
1825 (Bunsei 8), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 31 x 42 cm (12 3/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.27560
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Shimazaki, Edo Kabuki in Transition (2016), fig. 4.6; Shimazaki, "Ghost of Oiwa," Impressions 29 (2007-8), fig. 5; Gifu-ken Hakubutsukan, Shichidaime Danjûrô to Kunisada, Kuniyoshi (2001), #26
DescriptionPlay: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan
Theater: Nakamura
1825、乙酉、文政08、07・26
中村
仮名手本忠臣蔵(かなでほんちゅうしんぐら)、初日1番目、大序より6段目迄
東海道四谷怪談(とうかいどうよつやかいだん)、初日2番目、5幕続/新狂言6幕

口上に尾上菊五郎筑紫太宰府参詣のため御暇乞口上との記述あり、又「狂言三幕つゝ引分ケ忠臣蔵大序より6段目迄を初日の一ばん目と仕第二ばん目世話物相添且又後日七段目より敵討迄怪談三幕右一番目二ばん目二日がわり御名残狂言と仕」とあり。
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.