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Courtesan and Attendant Playing Sugoroku, with an Actor Watching

Courtesan and Attendant Playing Sugoroku, with an Actor Watching

双六遊び

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 Vertical chûban; 26.7 x 19.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4624

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #237; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #528, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 5

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.4624, 54.376

Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga (on the background wall painting)
鈴木春信画

ProvenanceFormerly in the E. F. Fenollosa collection; August 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.