Woman under a Flowering Tree, from the series Contest of Plum Blossoms: Six Fashonable Women (Fûzoku mume kurabe) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Woman under a Flowering Tree, from the series Contest of Plum Blossoms: Six Fashonable Women (Fûzoku mume kurabe)

Woman under a Flowering Tree, from the series Contest of Plum Blossoms: Six Fashonable Women (Fûzoku mume kurabe)

「風俗六女（ムメ）競」

Katsukawa Shunchô (Japanese, active about 1780–1801)

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Hashira-e; 70.4 x 12 cm (27 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.5958

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #720; Hillier, The Japanese Print: A New Approach (1960), pl. 32b (this impression)

Signed Shunchô ga
春潮画

ProvenanceDecember 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.