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Visiting (Kayoi), from the series Seven Komachi in Fashionable Disguise (Fûryû yatsushi nana Komachi)


「風流やつし七小町 かよひ」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1766–67 (Meiwa 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.7 x 13.5 cm (12 1/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16497
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #23; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #159; Katô, "Shisetsu," in Ukiyo-e geijutsu 143 (2002); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #83.3.1, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 234; Waterhouse, Harunobu and His Age (1964), #22
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.16497 (first state, with signature), 21.4970 (second state, unsigned)
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Akatsuki no/ shiji no hanegaki/ momo hagaki/ kimi ga konu yo wa/ ware zo kazu kazu
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.