Evening Bell at Mii-dera Temple (Mii no banshô), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Evening Bell at Mii-dera Temple (Mii no banshô), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)

Evening Bell at Mii-dera Temple (Mii no banshô), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)

「近江八景」　三井寺晩鐘　（右）

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1770 (Meiwa 7)

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

Dimensions Right half of half-hosoban; 14.8 x 7.1 cm (5 13/16 x 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4516

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #506; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #254.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 539

DescriptionRight half of sheet: 21.4516; left half of sheet: 21.4517.

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.