Lot 319
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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 20.8cm.); a boy entertaining four others gathered around a brazier with a shadow play, creating with his hands the silhouette of a rabbit on a standing screen, signed Harunobu ga--fine impression and color though slightly faded and soiled along edges, minute worm holes
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 20.8cm.); a boy entertaining four others gathered around a brazier with a shadow play, creating with his hands the silhouette of a rabbit on a standing screen, signed Harunobu ga--fine impression and color though slightly faded and soiled along edges, minute worm holes

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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 20.8cm.); a boy entertaining four others gathered around a brazier with a shadow play, creating with his hands the silhouette of a rabbit on a standing screen, signed Harunobu ga--fine impression and color though slightly faded and soiled along edges, minute worm holes

Lot Essay

For other impressions see Harunobu, Botsugo nihyakunen ten/Harunobu, exhibition commemorating 200th anniversary of his death, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1970), no. 216; Kobayashi Tadashi, Harunobu, vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973), no. 178 (Takahashi Collection, Keio University Library); and elsewhere, in Kobayashi, ed., Nishiki-e no tanjo: Edo shomin bunka no kaika/The Birth of Nishiki-e: Full-color Woodblock Prints and Edo Popular Culture, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Edo Tokyo Museum, 1996), pl. 4-27; Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 626.