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Memorial Portrait of Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kisen Hôshi, with Nakamura Tamashichi I as Bun'ya Yasuhide

Memorial Portrait of Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kisen Hôshi, with Nakamura Tamashichi I as Bun'ya Yasuhide

(Japanese, active 1830s–50s)
(Japanese)
1852 (Kaei 5), 2nd month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical chûban; 25 x 18.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit LineAlfred Greenough Collection
Accession number08.541.11
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsPoems by Tamashichi 「たよりすくなき影法師のひたすらに唯御ヒイキを希ふものは　ひとつほみ枝に残るや梅の花　玉七」
ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 17, 2007)
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