Lot Essay
There are at least two states of the print with different clothing patterns, and printing variants with different colors for the sky and ground. Other impressions are illustrated in Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 5; Yoshida, gen. ed., Nishiki-e soshi jidai (2), vol. 5 of Ukiyo-e taisei, (Tokyo: Taihokaku, 1930), no. 3480; Helen C. Gunsaulus, Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, their Followers and Contemporaries, in The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1965), no 124; Noguchi Yone[jiro], Harunobu (London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, and Co., 1940), no 48; Jack Hillier, Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Gale (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970), no. 77; Louis V. Ledoux, Japanese Prints by Harunobu and Shunsho in the Collection of Louis V. Ledoux (New York: E. Weyhe, 1945), no 13.