Poem by Shiseki, from the series Fashionable Versions of Ink in Five Colors (Fûryû goshiki-zumi)

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Poem by Shiseki, from the series Fashionable Versions of Ink in Five Colors (Fûryû goshiki-zumi)

風流五色墨　「咫尺」

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1768 (Meiwa 5)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28 x 20.5 cm (11 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4972

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #323; Haft, Aesthetic Strategies (2013), fig. 94 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #324.4, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 143

DescriptionMFA impressions of prints in the series: 21.8179 (title page), 21.4441 (Chôsui), 11.19452 (Sôzui), 21.4972 (Shiseki), 21.4440 and 11.22149 (Somaru)

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

InscriptionsPoem by Shiseki: Meigetsu ya/ kao wa sekku no/ hitodôri

ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.