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見立三夕 西行法師 （絵暦）
Poem by Saigyô Hôshi, from an untitled series of Three Evening Poems (Sanseki)
見立三夕 西行法師 （絵暦）
Japanese
Edo period
1765 (Meiwa 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 28.5 x 20.4 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.351
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #33; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #069; Chiba 2002, #43 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #125.4, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 178; Waterhouse, Harunobu and His Age (1964), #28
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych. First state, with numbers for the long months in the obi, and for the short months, in the reeds.
Signed
Sogiku (designer); Suzuki Harunobu ga (artist)
Marks
Designer's seal: Han
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)