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The Twelfth Month, from the series Popular Customs and the Poetic Immortals in the Four Seasons (Fûzoku shiki kasen)


「風俗四季歌仙」 十二月
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; 27.9 x 20.9 cm (11 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4465
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kobayashi, Harunobu taizen (2023), #122; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #334; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #320.9, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 328
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Ato tsukenu/ hodo wo mo misen/ niwa no yuki/ hito mo tou made/ kiezu mo aranan
ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#506); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.