Righteousness (Gi), from an untitled series of The Five Virtues (Gojô)

五条　「義」

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1769–70 (Meiwa 6–7)

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

Dimensions Hosoban; 31.4 x 13.5 cm (12 3/8 x 5 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.490

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #449; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #228.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 510

Description

Signed Unsigned
無款

InscriptionsPoem: Nanigoto mo/ mi wo herikudari/ ri wo wakachi/ itsuwari naki wo/ gi to wa iubeki

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross