Snow (Yuki), from the series Fashionable Snow, Moon and Flowers (Fûryû setsugekka)

風流雪月花　「雪」

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; 28.5 x 21.3 cm (11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.465

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #343; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #325.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 471

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.465, 21.4498

Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画

InscriptionsPoem: Shirotae no/ masago no ue ni/ furisomete/ omoishi yori mo/ tsumoru yuki kana

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross