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The God Ebisu Walking with a Young Woman in the Snow

The God Ebisu Walking with a Young Woman in the Snow

雪中の恵比寿と美人

Utagawa Toyohiro (Japanese, 1773–1828)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.4 x 18.5 cm (8 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8426

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #283 (copy); Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 439

DescriptionMFA impressions: 17.1447, 21.8426, 52.951

Poem translated in Carpenter et al 2008, p. 403; and Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 437.

Signed Toyohiro ga
豊広画

InscriptionsPoem by Nomichi no Kisanji: Yuki gomori/ Benten tayû/ hikitsurete/ Ebisu no miya e/ tomo ni au hi wa

ProvenanceBetween 1906 and 1909, acquired by Mr. and Mrs. John Osgood (Elizabeth Cameron) Blanchard in Japan; April 1916, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at Blanchard sale, American Art Galleries, New York; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.