Praying for Rain (Amagoi), from the series Fashionable Seven Komachi (Fûryû nana Komachi)

風流七小町　雨乞

Shiba Kôkan (Suzuki Harushige) (Japanese, 1747–1818)
Influence of: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1772–73 (Meiwa 9–An'ei 2)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 23 x 15.4 cm (9 1/16 x 6 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.473

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #609; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 594

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.473, 21.4474

Signed Harushige ga
春重画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross