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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
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
Marks Artist's seal: Tanchôsai
Provenance1947, gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich to the MFA. (Accession date: January 9, 1947)