Couple Eloping; Parody of the Akuta River Episode in Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

見立芥川　（女を背負って走る若侍）

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.7 x 20.5 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1117

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #396; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #357, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 494

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1117, 21.4486

Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross