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Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Auspicious Plays (Kotobuki kyôgen) at the Morita Theater
Image Not Available for Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Auspicious Plays (Kotobuki kyôgen) at the Morita Theater

Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Auspicious Plays (Kotobuki kyôgen) at the Morita Theater

Artist unknown, Japanese
Kanai Hanbei (Japanese)
1770s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color added later
Dimensions39.2 x 30.8 cm (15 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.27189
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.