Young Couple Dressed as Komusô, with Birds Overhead – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Young Couple Dressed as Komusô, with Birds Overhead

Young Couple Dressed as Komusô, with Birds Overhead

虚無僧姿の男女

Isoda Koryûsai (Japanese, 1735–1790)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1777

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

Dimensions Hashira-e; 68.5 x 11 cm (26 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8372

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley 2003, p. 256, #F-70; Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #375a; Gentles, AIC cat. II (1965), p. 263, #169

Signed Koryû ga
湖龍画

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#489); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.