Courtesan Playing Shamisen, Looking out at Snowy Landscape

雪の待乳山を眺める遊女とかむろ

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1768 (Meiwa 5)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28.2 x 21.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.496

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #366; Ukiyo-e shuka 4 (1979), list #519, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 340

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross