Two Young Women and a Crab at Susaki

州崎の蟹　（蟹のいたずら）

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 Vertical chûban; 28.4 x 21.4 cm (11 3/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper

Accession Number54.1501

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #251; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #458, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 279

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)