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HARUNOBU: chuban (28 x 21cm.); a beauty by a stream holding a stem of chrysanthemums she has plucked from a nearby stand of blossoms, a parody of Kikujido (Chrysanthemum boy), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, traces of pale blue background, slightly faded, some minor restorations, some retouching around contours of the figure
HARUNOBU: chuban (28 x 21cm.); a beauty by a stream holding a stem of chrysanthemums she has plucked from a nearby stand of blossoms, a parody of Kikujido (Chrysanthemum boy), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, traces of pale blue background, slightly faded, some minor restorations, some retouching around contours of the figure

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HARUNOBU: chuban (28 x 21cm.); a beauty by a stream holding a stem of chrysanthemums she has plucked from a nearby stand of blossoms, a parody of Kikujido (Chrysanthemum boy), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, traces of pale blue background, slightly faded, some minor restorations, some retouching around contours of the figure

Lot Essay

There are two states of this image. The first state is a calendar picture for 1766 with the signature and seal of Kinga (see David B. Waterhouse, Bosuton bijutsukan/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, supplemental vol. 1, Harunobu I in Ukiyo-e shuka [Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1982], pl. 18); another impression is in the Museo Edoardo Chiossone, Genoa.

The second state shown here lacks the calendar marks and the signature and seal of Kinga. For another impression see Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 515; and Sasagawa Rimpu, Suzuki Harunobu gashu (Tokyo: Sogei Shoin, 1927), no. 78.