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Snow Houses (Yuki muro), from the series Folk Customs of Japan (Nihon minzoku zufu)


日本民俗図譜 雪むろ
Sekino Jun'ichirô (Japanese, 1914–1988)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1946 (Shôwa 21), March

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 25.5 x 21.4 cm (10 1/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1075
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom a portfolio of 12 works by 10 artists.
The titles of the individual prints were on a separate sheet included in the portfolio.
MFA prints in the series (complete): 65.1058, 65.1061, 65.1063, 65.1065, 65.1066, 65.1070, 65.1072, 65.1073, 65.1074, 65.1075, 65.1090, 65.1099
Signed Jun (in Japanese, in block), Sekino (in romanization, in block)
ProvenanceBy 1965, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA: 1965, by inheritance to his wife, Barbara Birkhoff Paine (b. 1909 - d. 1995), Cambridge, MA; 1965, gift of Mrs. Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.