Dancer Performing the Lion Dance (Shakkyô)

石橋

Artist unknown, Japanese
Designer: Chikurô (Japanese, active 1765)
Blockcutter: Uemura Senpû (Japanese, active 1765)

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

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

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 22.4 x 27.5 cm (8 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line General Funds

Accession Number00.4

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #49; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #685; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 650

Signed Unsigned
無款

Marks Designer's seal: Chikurô
Blockcutter's mark: Chôkô Uemura Senpû

ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)