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The Cloth-fulling Jewel River (Tôi no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel rivers (Mu Tamagawa)


六玉川 「檮衣」
Shiba Kôkan (Suzuki Harushige) (Japanese, 1747–1818)
Forgery of: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1770–71 (Meiwa 7–8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.4 x 14.5 cm (10 x 5 11/16 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 NumberRES.54.40
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #598; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 587
Signed (Harunobu ga, at lower right, cut off of this impression)
InscriptionsPoem by Sagami: Matsukaze no/ oto dani aki wa/ sabishiki ni/ koromo utsu nari/ Tamagawa no sato
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)