Women Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Years Day – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Women Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Years Day

Women Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Years Day

正月賑

Katsukawa Shunchô (Japanese, active about 1780–1801)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1785 (Tenmei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.6 x 52.7 cm (15 3/16 x 20 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.7463-4

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #C8, pl. CXXII; Ukiyo-e taisei 6 (1931), #223

DescriptionDiptych: 21.7463 (left), 21.7464 (right)

Signed Shunchô ga (on each sheet)
春潮画

ProvenanceMay 8, 1918, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at the F. May sale; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.