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Courtesan and Attendant Playing Sugoroku, with an Actor Watching


双六遊び
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1767–68 (Meiwa 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chuban; 26.9 x 20.8 cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.376
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #238; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #528, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 271
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.4624, 54.376
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga (on the background wall painting)
鈴木春信画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)