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Young Woman Viewing the Full Moon on a Summer Evening

Young Woman Viewing the Full Moon on a Summer Evening

水辺で涼みながら月を見る女

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.2 x 19.6 cm (10 5/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4481

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #068; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #160.2, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 90

DescriptionNo other impression is known. Numbers for the long months are on the fan. Possibly the right half of an incomplete diptych.

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceFormerly in the Kobayashi collection; October 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.