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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; 28.4 x 21 cm (11 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.353
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kobayashi, Harunobu taizen (2023), #099; MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #81; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #328; Chiba 2002, #182 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #320.12.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 464
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.4395, 28.192, 34.353
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Hito mo toe/ saku ya uzuki no/ hana-zakari/ kochô ni nitaru/ yado no kakine o
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)