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The First Month (Shôgatsu), from an untitled series of Twelve Months


十二ヶ月 (年中行事の内) 「正月」 追羽根と手毬
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
1770 (Meiwa 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Half hosoban; 15.3 x 16.1 cm (6 x 6 5/16 in.), right frame: 13.7 x 6.5 cm (5 3/8 x 2 9/16 in.), left frame: 9 x 8 cm (3 9/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20126
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #100; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #494; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #259.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 407; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 1 (1960), #s 586 (right side), 588 (left side)
DescriptionThe date is given on the twelfth design in the series.
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.