HARUNOBU: chuban tate-e (28.1 x 21.6cm.); a beauty in a black hood and purple robe and a young girl holding an umbrella and lantern walking along the Sano river at twilight after a snow fall, the piles of snow in gauffrage, plovers flying above the river and a poem by Ki no Tomonori in the cloud, from an untitled set illustrating the Hyakunin isshu (The hundred poems by the hundred poets), signed Harunobu ga--very good impression and color, lightly foxed, otherwise good condition

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HARUNOBU: chuban tate-e (28.1 x 21.6cm.); a beauty in a black hood and purple robe and a young girl holding an umbrella and lantern walking along the Sano river at twilight after a snow fall, the piles of snow in gauffrage, plovers flying above the river and a poem by Ki no Tomonori in the cloud, from an untitled set illustrating the Hyakunin isshu (The hundred poems by the hundred poets), signed Harunobu ga--very good impression and color, lightly foxed, otherwise good condition

Lot Essay

For other impressions see Louis V. Ledoux, Japanese Prints By Harunobu & Shunsho in the Collection of Louis V.Ledoux (New York: E. Weyhe, 1945), no. 21; J. Hillier, Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Gale (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1970), no. 91