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Travelling Priest (Saigyô?) and Woman at Gate, frontispiece illustration from an unidentified book or magazine

Travelling Priest (Saigyô?) and Woman at Gate, frontispiece illustration from an unidentified book or magazine

旅僧（西行ヵ）と門の美人

Suzuki Kinsen (Japanese, 1867–1945)

Japanese

Meiji era

1890s–1900s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions 22.2 x 35 cm (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert M. Woollacott

Accession Number2015.2904

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kinsen hitsu
錦泉筆

Marks Blockcutter's mark (?): Yamaguchi tô (?)

Provenance2006, sold by Lella & Gianni Morra, Venice, Italy to Robert Woollacott, Cambridge, MA; 2015 gift of Robert Woollacott to the MFA. (Accession date: September 24, 2015).