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Salvation (Gedatsu): Actor Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kazusa Shichibyôe Kagekiyo, No. 12 from the series Eighteen Great Kabuki Plays (Jûhachiban no uchi)


「解脱(げだつ)」「十八番之内 十二」「上総七兵衛景清」五代目市川海老蔵
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), intercalary 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.4 x 24.8 cm (13 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42733
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hattori, Ichikawa Danjûrô daidai (2002), #146; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Edo kabuki (1995), #4-28; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 4 (1981), #99
Signed Ichiyô Toyokuni ga
一陽豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Rat intercalary
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松、子閏
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.