Evening Bell of Miidera (Miidera no banshô), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Noh Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Evening Bell of Miidera (Miidera no banshô), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Noh Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei)

Evening Bell of Miidera (Miidera no banshô), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Noh Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei)

「風流うたひ八景　三井寺晩鐘」

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Hosoban; 31.7 x 14.8 cm (12 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4389

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #340; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #244.5, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 379

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceFormerly in Tebbs collection; March 3, 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at Tebbs sale, Sotheby's; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.