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Twilight Snow of the Floss-stretching Form (Nurioke bosetsu), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of the Parlor (Fûryû zashiki hakkei)


「風流座敷八景 塗桶暮雪」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1765–70 (Meiwa 2–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.318.11
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #460; Ishigami, "Fûryû zashiki hakkai," in Ukiyo-e geijuitsu 165 (2008), p. 71, fig. 2; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), p. 228 (no photo)
DescriptionOne of twenty woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, from Mane'emon and other series.
Signed Unsigned
無款
InscriptionsPoem: Fuji no yama/ fumoto wa kuraki/ yûgure no/ sora sarigenaki/ yuki o miru kana
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)