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Elegant Chronicles of New Year Sake (Shôgatsu sake biroku)


「正月酒美録」 (複製)
After: Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
1890s copy of late 1810s design

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.6 x 18.3 cm (8 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Louis W. Black
Accession Number51.39
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #27; the original: McKee, Colored in the Year's New Light (Becker coll. exh. ca., 2008), #36; Christie's Sale Catalogue #7576 (October 23, 1992), lot #58
DescriptionGroup C copy, based on an original of the late 1810s, with a new title and poem.
Signed Gakutei Harunobu
岳亭春信
Provenance1951, gift of Louis W. Black to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 11, 1951)