The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Popular Customs and the Poetic Immortals in the Four Seasons (Fûzoku shiki kasen)

「風俗四季歌仙　卯月」

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 chuban; 27.2 x 20.5 cm (10 11/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of Miss Ellen Starkey Bates

Accession Number28.192

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #329; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #320.12.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 465

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.4395, 28.192, 34.353

Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画

Marks Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa

InscriptionsPoem: Hito mo toe/ saku ya uzuki no/ hana-zakari/ kochô ni nitaru/ yado no kakine o

Provenance1928, bequest of Miss Ellen Starkey Bates to the MFA. (Accession date: March 1,1928)