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Rôben Falls on Mount Ôyama (Ôyama Rôben taki no zu): Actors Kirishima Giemon, Onoe Eizaburô III, Ichikawa Ebizô V, and Nakamura Tsuruzô I


大山良弁滝之図  「桐島儀右衛門」、「尾上栄三郎」(三代目)、「市川海老蔵」(五代目)、「中村鶴蔵」(初代)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839 (Tenpô 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 x 25 cm (14 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37955
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri, Kuniyoshi (2011), #140 (complete triptych)
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.37954-5 (no VR)
Title on missing left sheet.

The print must date from some time betsween the retirement of Onoe Kikugorô III in 11/1838 (since he is not shown) and that of Kirishima Giemon in 5/1840.
Signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
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.