Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770)
A beauty seated holding a tobacco-pipe, a kamuro next to her making mawata, floss-silk, into wadding by pressing it into sheets and drying them over a nurioke (heater), unsigned--very good impression, slightly faded, embossing, backed, faint stains chuban tate-e: 27.8 x 20.7cm.
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This impression is the second state with slight variations in color, the addition of printing patterns on dado and wall, and the omission of the Kyosen seal.
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