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Woman Looking at a Sleeping Tea-boy (Chabôzu)

Woman Looking at a Sleeping Tea-boy (Chabôzu)

居眠り茶坊主　（茶挽臼）

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; 28.2 x 22 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4402

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #263; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #544, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 57

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceFormerly in the Sumitomo collection; 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.