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「浮世美人寄花 卯花 笠森の婦人」
Deutzia Flowers: The Wife from Kasamori (Kasamori no fujin, unohana), from the series Beauties of the Floating World Associated with Flowers (Ukiyo bijin yosebana)
「浮世美人寄花 卯花 笠森の婦人」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1770 (Meiwa 7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 28.5 x 20.4 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19515
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #109; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #481; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #38; Chiba 2002, #247 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #262.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 325
Signed
Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Unohana no/ sakari narazuba/ yamazato no/ kakine ni tare ka/ kokoro tomemashi
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.
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.