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Lot Essay
There are two states of this print with different patterns on the robes.
For another impression of this print see Yoshida Teruji, Nishiki-e soshi jidai (1), vol. 4 of Ukiyo-e taisei (Tokyo: Taihokaku, 1930), no. 39.
Other impressions are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (see Jack Hillier, Suzuki Harunobu: An exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death in 1770, exh. cat. [Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970], no. 109; and Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Harunobu, Nihon no bijutsu 5, no. 228 [Tokyo: Shibundo, 1985], fig. 38); and elsewhere (see Julius Kurth, Suzuki Harunobu [Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1910], no. 38; Noguchi Yonejiro, Suzuki Harunobu, vol. 1 of Rokudai ukiyo-e shi ketteiban [Tokyo: Seibundo, 1932], no. 46; Sasagawa Rimpu, Suzuki Harunobu gashu [Tokyo: Sogei Shoin, 1927], no. 127; and Yoshida, Harunobu zenshu [Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942], no. 367).
For another impression of this print see Yoshida Teruji, Nishiki-e soshi jidai (1), vol. 4 of Ukiyo-e taisei (Tokyo: Taihokaku, 1930), no. 39.
Other impressions are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (see Jack Hillier, Suzuki Harunobu: An exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death in 1770, exh. cat. [Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970], no. 109; and Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Harunobu, Nihon no bijutsu 5, no. 228 [Tokyo: Shibundo, 1985], fig. 38); and elsewhere (see Julius Kurth, Suzuki Harunobu [Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1910], no. 38; Noguchi Yonejiro, Suzuki Harunobu, vol. 1 of Rokudai ukiyo-e shi ketteiban [Tokyo: Seibundo, 1932], no. 46; Sasagawa Rimpu, Suzuki Harunobu gashu [Tokyo: Sogei Shoin, 1927], no. 127; and Yoshida, Harunobu zenshu [Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942], no. 367).