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Couple Drinking Sake beside a Folding Screen, from an untitled erotic series
Couple Drinking Sake beside a Folding Screen, from an untitled erotic series

Couple Drinking Sake beside a Folding Screen, from an untitled erotic series

Sugimura Jihei (Japanese, active about 1680–1698)
mid 1680s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
DimensionsHorizontal ôban; 22.8 × 33.5 cm (9 × 13 3/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession numberRES.09.314.4
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)