Hotei Playing with a Child, from the series The Seven Gods of Good Fortune in the Modern World (Tôsei Shichifukujin)

「当世七福神」　布袋と夏姿の母子

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1769 (Meiwa 6)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.5 x 20.5 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter

Accession Number34.344

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #411; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #306.6, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 502

Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画

InscriptionsPoem: Shami naranu/ chôshi ni notte/ fukutoku o/ uketamaubeki/ Ten kozôdono

Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)