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Wisteria: Nokaze of the Matsuzakaya in the Southern Direction (Minami no kata Matsuzakaya uchi Nokaze, fuji), from the series Beauties of the Floating World Associated with Flowers (Ukiyo bijin yosebana)


「浮世美人寄花 南の方 松坂屋内野風 藤」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
1770 (Meiwa 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28.6 x 20.4 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19507
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #110; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #479; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #37; Chiba 2002, #252 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #262.4, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 523
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19504, 11.19507
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Kimi ga yo no/ matsu ni kakareru/ fuji nareba/ chitabi sakubeki/ hana ka to zo omou
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.