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Perspective Print of the Play Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga at the Ichimura Theater: Actors Bandô Hikosaburô I as Kudô Suketsune, Ichimura Manzô as Soga no Jûrô, and Onoe Kikugorô I as Soga no Gorô

Perspective Print of the Play Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga at the Ichimura Theater: Actors Bandô Hikosaburô I as Kudô Suketsune, Ichimura Manzô as Soga no Jûrô, and Onoe Kikugorô I as Soga no Gorô

(Japanese, active about 1740–1750)
(Japanese)
1744 (Kanpô 4/Enkyô 1), 1st month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
DimensionsHorizontal ô-ôban; 31.5 x 44.8 cm (12 3/8 x 17 5/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.19686
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.