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Townspeople at a Party for the Ebisu Festival in the Tenth Month (Chōnin zu, Jūgatsu Ebisu-kō enkai no tei), from an untitled series of Customs of the Twelve Months


十二ヶ月 「町人つ 十月ゑびすかう宴かいのてい」
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Publisher: Sudō Gonbei (Yamaguchiya) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1711–16 (Shōtoku era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Horizontal ōban; 27.2 x 38 cm (10 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.845.10
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Shibui, "Masanobu no sumi-e," Ukiyo-e no kenkyū VI.3 (March 1929), #N (only N-6 is illustrated)
DescriptionThe complete series of 12 prints, plus a handwritten colopbhon by former owner Ōta Nanpo (1749–1823), all mounted as a handscroll: 06.845.1 to 06.845.13.
Signed (Yamato eshi Okumura Masanobu zu, on sheet 12 only)
(大和画師奥村政信図)
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Ôta Nanpo (1749–1823). Purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Mr. Prang 1905. March 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross.