Kayoi Komachi, No. 3 from the series Seven Komachi (Nana Komachi no uchi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Kayoi Komachi, No. 3 from the series Seven Komachi (Nana Komachi no uchi)

Kayoi Komachi, No. 3 from the series Seven Komachi (Nana Komachi no uchi)

「七小町之内　三　かよひ小町」

Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697?–1756)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1735 (Kyôhô 20)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color

Dimensions Hosoban; 31.7 x 15.3 cm (12 1/2 x 6 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.5876

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #37 (described but not illustrated)

Signed Gakô Nishimura Shigenaga hitsu
画工西村重長筆

Marks Artist's seal: Shigenaga

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.