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The Cup of Sake before Bed (Toko-sakazuki), sheet 6 of the series Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma), known as the Marriage series


婚礼錦貞女車 六 床盃
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1769 (Meiwa 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 21 x 29 cm (8 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19474
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #428; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #666.6, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 506
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19474, 11.19476, 21.4457
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
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.