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Travelling Priest (Saigyô?) and Woman at Gate, frontispiece illustration from an unidentified book or magazine

(Japanese, 1867–1945)
1890s–1900s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions22.2 x 35 cm (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Robert M. Woollacott
Accession number2015.2904
On View
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ClassificationsPrints
Provenance2006, sold by Lella & Gianni Morra, Venice, Italy to Robert Woollacott, Cambridge, MA; 2015 gift of Robert Woollacott to the MFA. (Accession date: September 24, 2015).