Couple at a Kotatsu Reading a Letter

炬燵で文を読む男女

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.4 x 17.3 cm (10 x 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.462

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #058; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #173.2, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 171

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.462 (fourth state, without calendrical information), 21.4596 (second state, with calendrical information)

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross