Night Rain of Genjô (Genjô no yau), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Nô Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Night Rain of Genjô (Genjô no yau), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Nô Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei)

Night Rain of Genjô (Genjô no yau), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Nô Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei)

「風流うたひ八景　絃上の夜雨」

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; 31.8 x 14.6 cm (12 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4391

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #335; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #244.7, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 469

Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画

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.