Woman Pulling at a Man's Umbrella; Parody of the Story of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Woman Pulling at a Man's Umbrella; Parody of the Story of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon

Woman Pulling at a Man's Umbrella; Parody of the Story of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon

傘を持った武士と引き取める遊女　（見立渡辺綱と茨木童子）

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 Hashira-e; 69.1 x 12.6 cm (27 3/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4559

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #522; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #709, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 416

Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画

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.