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Kissing Couple on Mat, from an untitled erotic series


春画シリーズ 茣蓙に口付ける男女
Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671–1750)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.2 × 38.3 cm (9 15/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.317.6
NOT ON VIEW
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)