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The Feather Robe (Hagoromo), from the series Fashionable Parodies of Noh Plays (Fûryû utai mitate)


「(風流)うたひ見立 羽衣」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4978
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #346; Haft, Aesthetic Strategies (2013), fig. 87; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #322.2, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 472
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
Inscriptions1. Quotation from Hagoromo: Chikara oyobazu. Sen kata mo...
2. Tobi ni abura-age
ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.