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Young Couple and Female Observer at a Cherry Blossom Viewing Party, from an untitled erotic series
Young Couple and Female Observer at a Cherry Blossom Viewing Party, from an untitled erotic series

Young Couple and Female Observer at a Cherry Blossom Viewing Party, 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 × 33.7 cm (9 × 13 1/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession numberRES.09.314.7
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)