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Boys Quarrelling over a Calligraphy Copybook; Parody of Komachi Washing the Manuscript (Sôshi arai)


喧嘩する子供 (見立草子洗い)
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1767–68 (Meiwa 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.6 x 20.2 cm (10 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Otis Norcross Fund
Accession Number16.116
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #87; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #283; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #375, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 132
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
ProvenancePurchased by the MFA from an unknown source. (Accession Date: May 4, 1916)