Lot 323
323
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 21cm.); Uzuki, Ungai kakko (Fourth month, cuckoo out of clouds), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen (Scenes of daily life with poems for the four seasons), a courtesan on a veranda turning back to watch a cuckoo in flight, her kamuro nearby holding a shamisen and a book, signed Harunobu ga--fine impression, good color though slightly faded along the left edge, a minute worm hole on right
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 21cm.); Uzuki, Ungai kakko (Fourth month, cuckoo out of clouds), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen (Scenes of daily life with poems for the four seasons), a courtesan on a veranda turning back to watch a cuckoo in flight, her kamuro nearby holding a shamisen and a book, signed Harunobu ga--fine impression, good color though slightly faded along the left edge, a minute worm hole on right

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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 21cm.); Uzuki, Ungai kakko (Fourth month, cuckoo out of clouds), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen (Scenes of daily life with poems for the four seasons), a courtesan on a veranda turning back to watch a cuckoo in flight, her kamuro nearby holding a shamisen and a book, signed Harunobu ga--fine impression, good color though slightly faded along the left edge, a minute worm hole on right

Lot Essay

This print is from Harunobu's second series of pictures with verse for the twelve months (see also lot 327). For other impressions see Kobayashi Tadashi, Harunobu, vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973), no. 130; Kobayashi, ed., Harunobu, vol. 1 of Meihin soroimono ukiyo-e (Tokyo: Gyosei, 1991), pl. 32 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London); and Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 497.