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The Ide Jewel River, a Famous Place in Yamashiro Province (Ide no Tamagawa, Yamashiro meisho), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers (Mu Tamagawa)


六玉川 「伊手の玉川 山城名所」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1766–67 (Meiwa 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28.9 x 21.8 cm (11 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4528
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #164; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #344.5.1, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 105; Gentles, AIC cat. II (1965), p.71, #112; Waterhouse, Harunobu and his Age (1964), #34
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.4528 (first state), 06.499 (second state)
Signed Unsigned
無款
InscriptionsPoem by Shunzei: Koma tomete/ nao mizu kawan/ yamabuki no/ hana no tsuyu sou/ Ide no Tamagawa
ProvenanceMay 1914, 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.