Courtesan and Customer at the Ibarakiya; Parody of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon at Rashômon Gate – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Courtesan and Customer at the Ibarakiya; Parody of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon at Rashômon Gate

Courtesan and Customer at the Ibarakiya; Parody of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon at Rashômon Gate

見立渡辺綱と茨木童子　（いばらき屋店先）

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; 27.5 x 20.3 cm (10 13/16 x 8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4411

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #228; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #416, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 47

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19494, 21.4411

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.