Lot 300
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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 21cm); a mother and child by a rice mill looking up at a cuckoo flying overhead, the poem above by Minamoto no Kintada Ason, rice grains embossed, unsigned--very good impression, slightly faded, slightly soiled and creased along edges
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 21cm); a mother and child by a rice mill looking up at a cuckoo flying overhead, the poem above by Minamoto no Kintada Ason, rice grains embossed, unsigned--very good impression, slightly faded, slightly soiled and creased along edges

Details
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.7 x 21cm); a mother and child by a rice mill looking up at a cuckoo flying overhead, the poem above by Minamoto no Kintada Ason, rice grains embossed, unsigned--very good impression, slightly faded, slightly soiled and creased along edges
Provenance
Hayashi Tadamasa

Lot Essay

This appears in two states, with and without verse, from an untitled series of illustrations for the Thirty-six Immortal Poets (see Yoshida, Harunobu zenshu [Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942], no. 337).