The Seven Gods of Good Fortune in the Treasure Boat, with a Crane and Mount Fuji

宝船の七福神と富士山

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1767–68 (Meiwa 4–5)

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

Dimensions Hashira-e; 68.6 x 12.7 cm (27 x 5 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.971

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #533; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #772, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 422

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.16480 (the original print), 06.971 (same design but different blocks; an early copy or forgery)

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross