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Osen of the Kagiya Using a Hairpin To Remove the Pit of a Ground-cherry

Osen of the Kagiya Using a Hairpin To Remove the Pit of a Ground-cherry

簪で鬼灯の芯を取るお仙

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1769–70 (Meiwa 6–7)

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

Dimensions Hashira-e; 69.5 x 11.4 cm (27 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4545

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #579; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #804, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 573

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceJuly 1914, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.