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Actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Sakama Jin'emon and Bandô Matsujirô as Umenosuke

Actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Sakama Jin'emon and Bandô Matsujirô as Umenosuke

(Japanese, 1823–1880)
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 10th month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; 37 × 25.1 cm (14 9/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession number00.1468
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)
Caged Birds, from the series Twelve Assorted Birds (Shochô jûnikin)
about 1791 (Kansei 3)
Clear Morning after Snow at Nihonbashi Bridge (Nihonbashi yukibare no asa), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)
Mimeguri Embankment on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Mimeguri tsutsumi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 2nd month
Shaving the Head of Fukurokuju
View of the Sumida River with the Mimeguri Shrine and Mount Tsukuba, picture 7 from the shunga album Haru no usuyuki (Passion in the Snows of Spring)
1822 (Bunsei 5)
Yoshida: The Toyokawa River Bridge (Yoshida, Toyokawabashi), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)
Takanawa, between Nihonbashi and Shinagawa: (Actor Sawamura Sôjûrô III as) Yuranosuke, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), here called Tôkaidô
1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month
Komachi on the Gravepost (Sotoba Komachi), from the series Fashionable Beauties as the Seven Komachi (Fûryû bijin nana Komachi)
about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)
Parrot Komachi (Ômu Komachi), from the series Fashionable Beauties as the Seven Komachi (Fûryû bijin nana Komachi)
about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)
View of the Whirlpools at Awa (Awa Naruto no fûkei), from an untitled set of three triptychs
1857 (Ansei 4), 4th month
Visit to a Shrine for the Shichigosan Festival, from an untitled series of Toba-e
1811–3 (Bunka 8–10)
Ishiyama, from an untitled series of Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)
about 1825 (Bunsei 8)