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The Cloth-fulling Jewel River (Tôi no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers (Mu Tamagawa)


六玉川 「檮衣玉川」
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 chuban; 28.3 x 21 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19469
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #69; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #317; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #435.4, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 140
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem by Sagami: Matsukaze no/ oto dani aki wa/ sabishiki ni/ koromo utsu nari/ Tamagawa no sato
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.