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Swordfighting Practice, from an untitled series of Pastimes of the Seasons


四季の遊び 剣道
Sugimura Jihei (Japanese, active about 1680–1698)
Japanese
Edo period
1684 (Tenna 4/Jôkyô 1), spring

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Two chûbon pages; 24.5 × 33.1 cm (9 5/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.305.5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionOne of eleven prints mounted as a handscroll, probably originally from a book.
Signed (Gashi Sugimura-shi hitsu, on final sheet of scroll)
(画師椙村氏筆)
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross