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Ebisu and Ofuji, from the series The Seven Gods of Good Fortune in the Modern World (Tôsei Shichifukujin)


「当世七福神」 恵比寿と本柳屋お藤
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1769 (Meiwa 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.7 x 20.9 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.343
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #114; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #410; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #306.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 501
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Asakusa no/ ichi fushi no ko no/ yanagi-goshi/ nishiki Ebisu mo/ mitore Saburô
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)