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天神 （菅原道真）
Portrait of Tenjin (Sugawara Michizane)
天神 （菅原道真）
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Japanese
Edo period
1740s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions
Wide hashira-e; 65.7 x 23.5 cm (25 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number47.16
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #77 (this impression); Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 2, British Museum II (1988), fig. 33; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #30
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.5774, 47.16
Signed
Hôgetsudo Tanchôsai Okumura Shinmyô Bunkaku Masanobu kinzu
方月堂丹鳥斎 奥村親妙文角政信謹図
方月堂丹鳥斎 奥村親妙文角政信謹図
Marks
Artist's seal: Tanchôsai
Provenance1947, gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich to the MFA. (Accession date: January 9, 1947)