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「風流七小町やつし しみづ」
Komachi at Kiyomizu Temple (Shimizu), from the series Fashionable Seven Komachi (Fûryû nana Komachi)
「風流七小町やつし しみづ」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Hashira-e; 67.1 x 12.3 cm (26 7/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21285
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #64; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #560; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #796, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 436; Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #143
Signed
Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Nani o shite/ mi o itazura ni/ obi token/ taki no keshiki/ kawaranu mono o
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.
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.