Flourishing Business to the Tune of a Thousand Gold Pieces a Day in Great Edo (Nichi senryô Ô-Edo no furumai): The Star of Comedy (Yose senryô), San'yûtei Enshô (R), and the Star of the Pleasure Quarters (Kuruwa senryô), Koina of the Inamoto-rô (L)

Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)

Kogaya Katsugorô (Japanese)

Ôta Utakichi (Hori Uta) (Japanese)

1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 1st month

Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

DimensionsVertical ôban diptych; 37.4 × 49.7 cm (14 3/4 × 19 9/16 in.)

Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession number11.21584-5

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Inscriptions右「日千両大江戸賑三題はなし　　　芝居題　　よし原　　　席亭ある人が道にて○○をきけば当時役者ハ中村芝翫（なかむらしかん）よし原の全盛ハまず、これでありやしょうこれといって他にはいない稲本樓小稲（いなもとろうこいな）さんサ名こそ小稲といいやすが今はいっかどの大株（おおかぶ）で客は日にまし一粒萬倍そこで」中「内鏡（ないきょう）の實入（みいり）もよろしく實（じつ）にあそこは米櫃（こめびつ）サまずそれどうりじやない此のあいだ芝居と席へ幕をやりやしたがよゆうの○向が○つうりサぜんてん稲は雀（すずめ）という注文のところさる人がいうのには雀は稲の實（み）をくうからそれよりハ」左（どこ迄も羽を伸○ようにと稲に鶴と光琳風の極ざんしきで画（うつせ）しがイヤ見事見事ハアそれじゃあ芝居（しばゐ）や席亭（せきてい）の量と○○大入ハやつ○り稲にあやかってのぅどうしてどうして芝居や席（よせ）の大入を作（さく）のよいのでありやしょう応需三遊亭圓朝作）

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.