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The Third Month (Yayoi), from an untitled series of Twelve Months


十二月 「弥生」
Komai Yoshinobu (Japanese, active about 1765–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1765–69 (Meiwa 2–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.1 x 19.6 cm (10 1/4 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper
Accession Number54.1502
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #671; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 461
Signed Komai Yoshinobu ga
駒井美信画
InscriptionsPoem: Sakura saku/ isami yoki kana/ kaburo-hina/ kurabete miyo to/ egao shiorashi
Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)