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Armorer (Yoroi), from the book Iroe shokunin burui (Color Pictures of Various Artisans)


彩画職人部類 「甲(ヨロイ)」
Tachibana Minkô (Japanese, active about 1764–1772)
Japanese
Edo period
1784 (Tenmei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions One page; 21 x 16.2 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number49.654
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionRight page of a two-page spread (the armorer is on the left page).
MFA impressions of the intact book: 2008.1623, 2008.2013, 2008.2014.1-2, 2008.2015.1-2, 2008.2017.1-2
A group of illustrations cut from the book: 49.651 to 49.661a-b.
Signed (this page unsigned)
Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)