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風流艶色真似ゑもん 「まねへもん 二」
Calligraphy Teacher and Pupil with Mating Cats, No. 2 from the series The Amorous Adventures of Mane'emon (Fûryû enshoku Mane'emon)
風流艶色真似ゑもん 「まねへもん 二」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1765–70 (Meiwa 2–7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal chûban
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.318.3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #433; Klompmakers, Japanese Erotic Prints (2001), #B.2; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), p. 225 (no photo)
DescriptionOne of twenty woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, from Mane'emon and other series.
Signed
Unsigned
無款
無款
InscriptionsPoems:
1. Chinese: kashin rei [getsukan mukyoku]/ banzai sen [shûraku fuô]
2. Japanese tanka: Kimi ga yo wa/ chiyo ni yachiyo ni/ sazare-ishi no/ [iwa] o to narite/ koke no musu made
1. Chinese: kashin rei [getsukan mukyoku]/ banzai sen [shûraku fuô]
2. Japanese tanka: Kimi ga yo wa/ chiyo ni yachiyo ni/ sazare-ishi no/ [iwa] o to narite/ koke no musu made
ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)