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


「風俗四季歌仙 弥生」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1769 (Meiwa 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.9 x 20.4 cm (11 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4468
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #333; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #320.4, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 468
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Kyô to ieba/ iwama ni yodomu/ sakazuki o/ matanu sora sae/ hana ni yôran
ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.