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Autumn Moon at Komagata (Komagata shûgetsu), from the series Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Fûryû Edo hakkei)


「風流江戸八景 駒形秋月」
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 chûban; 27.1 x 19.8 cm (10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19500
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kobayashi, Harunobu taizen (2023), #104; MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #117; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #313; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #323.3, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 66
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Nio no umi/ teru tsukikage wo/ Komagata ni/ nagame Akashi mo/ Suma mo mukaen
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.