Woman with a Stick Puppet Representing Actor Ôtani Hiroji I as a Fishmonger

初代大谷広次の人形を持つ美人

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1715

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

Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 56.6 x 32.4 cm (22 5/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of Miss Ellen Starkey Bates

Accession Number28.197

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #63 (this impression)

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.5737, 28.197

Signed Okumura Masanobu zu
奥村政信図

Marks Artist's seal: Masanobu

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