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Monkey (Saru): Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Yojirô, from the series Selections for the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Mitate jûnishi)


「見立十二支 申 与次郎 中村芝翫」(四代目)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 24 cm (14 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37598
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Newland, Yoshitoshi (2011), p. 158, list #15
Signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga
一魁斎芳年画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
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.