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The Third Month: The Doll Festival, Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide (Yayoi, Hinamatsuri, shiohi), from an untitled series of Day and Night Scenes of the Twelve Months


昼夜十二ヶ月 「やよひ 雛まつり 汐干」
Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1772–75 (early An'ei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.8 x 19.7 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6907
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa Toyoharu to sono jidai (1994), #42 (color photo p. 12); Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 2, British Museum II (1987), pl. 64; Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #220
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.20133, 21.6907
From a series jointly designed by Kitao Shigemasa (#s 1, 5, 9, 11), Katsukawa Shunshô (#s 2, 4, 7, 12), and Utagawa Toyoharu (#s 3, 6, 8, 10).
Signed Utagawa Toyoharu ga
歌川豊春画
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.