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「風流江戸八景 上野の晩妾」
The Mistress in the Evening at Ueno (Ueno no banshô, pun on Evening Bell at Ueno), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Edo (Fûryû Edo hakkei)
「風流江戸八景 上野の晩妾」
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.09.318.10
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #459; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), p. 227 (no photo)
DescriptionOne of twenty woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, from Mane'emon and other series.
The couple are in a teahouse overlooking Shinobazu Pond.
The couple are in a teahouse overlooking Shinobazu Pond.
Signed
Unsigned
無款
無款
InscriptionsPoem: Kono hodo mo/ sazo tsutaetaru/ yadosagari/ yoban tsuzukete/ ireai no ane
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)