Young Woman as the Zen Master Feng Gan (Bukan Zenshi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Young Woman as the Zen Master Feng Gan (Bukan Zenshi)

Young Woman as the Zen Master Feng Gan (Bukan Zenshi)

女豊干禅師

Artist unknown, Japanese

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

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

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 19.5 x 25.6 cm (7 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.7176

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #687; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 652; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 463

DescriptionLong months on the fan, short months in the kimono design.

Signed Unsigned
無款

Marks Collector's seal (unidentified)

ProvenanceFormerly in E. F. Fenollosa collection (#232); August 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.