Casting a Curse at the Hour of the Ox (Ushi no toki mairi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Casting a Curse at the Hour of the Ox (Ushi no toki mairi)

Casting a Curse at the Hour of the Ox (Ushi no toki mairi)

丑の時参り

Artist unknown, Japanese
Attributed to: Tachibana Minkô (Japanese, active about 1764–1772)

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

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

Dimensions Hosoban; 28.2 x 17 cm (11 1/8 x 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6311

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #703; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 666

DescriptionNo other impressions are known.
Numbers for the long months are concealed in the obi.

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceAugust 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.