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The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Popular Customs and the Poetic Immortals in the Four Seasons (Fûzoku shiki kasen)


「風俗四季歌仙 卯月」
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 Vertical chûban; 27.8 x 21 cm (10 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4395
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #327; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #320.12.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 463; Yoshida, Harunobu zenshû (1942), #504
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.4395, 28.192, 34.353
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Hito mo toe/ saku ya uzuki no/ hana-zakari/ kochô ni nitaru/ yado no kakine wo
ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#546); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.