Returning Sails of Takasago (Takasago no kihan), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Nô Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Returning Sails of Takasago (Takasago no kihan), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Nô Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei)

Returning Sails of Takasago (Takasago no kihan), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Nô Plays (Fûryû utai hakkei)

「風流うたひ八景　高砂の帰帆」

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)

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

Dimensions Hosoban; 31.8 x 14.5 cm (12 1/2 x 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4386

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #339; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #244.2, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 378

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceFormerly in Tebbs collection; March 3, 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at Tebbs sale, Sotheby's; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.