Lot 306
306
HARUNOBU: chuban (28.5 x 20.5cm.); two courtesans looking at the sea from a veranda in an autumn evening below a poem by Fujiwara no Sadaie which makes reference to a thatched hut on a distant shore, shown in the background one of a set of three prints (see also lots 304, 305), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--fine impression and color, slightly soiled along edges, slightly creased, a faint horizontal center fold
HARUNOBU: chuban (28.5 x 20.5cm.); two courtesans looking at the sea from a veranda in an autumn evening below a poem by Fujiwara no Sadaie which makes reference to a thatched hut on a distant shore, shown in the background one of a set of three prints (see also lots 304, 305), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--fine impression and color, slightly soiled along edges, slightly creased, a faint horizontal center fold

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HARUNOBU: chuban (28.5 x 20.5cm.); two courtesans looking at the sea from a veranda in an autumn evening below a poem by Fujiwara no Sadaie which makes reference to a thatched hut on a distant shore, shown in the background one of a set of three prints (see also lots 304, 305), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--fine impression and color, slightly soiled along edges, slightly creased, a faint horizontal center fold

Lot Essay

For another impression see David B. Waterhouse, Harunobu and his Age: The Development of Colour Printing in Japan (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1964), no. 32; Helen C. Gunsaulus, Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, their Followers and Contemporaries, in The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1965), no. 144; and Yoshida, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 361.