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Yoshiwara and Kanbara: Actors Onoe Kikugorô IV as a Sparrow Dealer (Suzume shônin) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Fox (Kitsune) Tadanobu, from the series the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi)


「東海道五十三次 吉原 すゝめ商人」四代目尾上菊五郎、「東海道五十三次 蒲原 狐忠信」四代目市川小団次
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kiya Sôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 25 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43190
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T66-08
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 1
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳正
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.