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Couple with Sake, Shamisen, and Folding Screen, from an untitled erotic series

(Japanese, 1671–1750)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
DimensionsHorizontal ôban; 25.2 × 37.7 cm (9 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession numberRES.09.317.3
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)