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Moon (Tsuki), from the series Fashionable Snow, Moon and Flowers (Fûryû Setsugekka)


「風流雪月花 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; 27.9 x 20.2 cm (11 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4475
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #344; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #325.2, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 330; Gentles, AIC cat. II (1965), p. 103, #168
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Nani to naku/ mono-omoi somete/ nagabureba/ kawaranu tsuki mo/ sode nurashikeri
「なにとなく 物思ひそめて  ふれは かわらぬ月も 袖ぬらしけり」
ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#611); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.