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近江八景 「八橋帰帆」 （左）
Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase kihan), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)
近江八景 「八橋帰帆」 （左）
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1770 (Meiwa 7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Left half of half-hosoban; 14.8 x 8.6 cm (5 13/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4518
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #509; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #254.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 542
DescriptionRight half of sheet: 21.4515; left half of sheet: 21.4518.
Signed
(this picture unsigned)
InscriptionsPoem: Maho hikite/ Yabase ni kaeru/ fune wa ima/ Uchide no hama o/ ato no oikaza
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.