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Middle Room (Manaka heya): Actors Arashi Kichiroku I, Nakamura Shikan IV, and Nakamura Tôzô II, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)


「俳優楽屋の姿見 間中部屋」 「嵐吉六」(初代)、「中村芝翫」(四代目)、「中村桃蔵」(二代目)
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Enshûya Hikobei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Hori Toyo (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 × 25 cm (14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.746
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouche
国貞画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 11 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Toyo
改印:亥十一改
彫師:彫豊
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)