Couple with Sake, Shamisen, and Folding Screen, from an untitled erotic series – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Couple with Sake, Shamisen, and Folding Screen, from an untitled erotic series

Couple with Sake, Shamisen, and Folding Screen, from an untitled erotic series

春画シリーズ　屏風と三味線に男女

Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671–1750)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.2 × 37.7 cm (9 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession NumberRES.09.317.3

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionOne of seven woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, RES.09.317.1-7.

Signed (Karaku Yamato Eshi Bunkadô Nishikawa Sukenobu zu, on the final sheet in the series)
（花洛大和画司　文華堂西川祐信図）

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)