Lot 305
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HARUNOBU: chuban (28.4 x 20.5cm.); courtesans on an autumn evening, one reading and one smoking, below a poem by priest Jakuren to which the scene alludes, one of a set of three prints (see also lots 304 and 306), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--fine impression, very good color, very slightly soiled along edges, some faint creases
HARUNOBU: chuban (28.4 x 20.5cm.); courtesans on an autumn evening, one reading and one smoking, below a poem by priest Jakuren to which the scene alludes, one of a set of three prints (see also lots 304 and 306), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--fine impression, very good color, very slightly soiled along edges, some faint creases

Details
HARUNOBU: chuban (28.4 x 20.5cm.); courtesans on an autumn evening, one reading and one smoking, below a poem by priest Jakuren to which the scene alludes, one of a set of three prints (see also lots 304 and 306), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--fine impression, very good color, very slightly soiled along edges, some faint creases

Lot Essay

For another impression see David B. Waterhouse, Harunobu and his Age: The Development of Colour Printing in Japan (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1964), no. 31; Jack Hiller, vol. 1 of Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr & Mrs Richard P. Gale (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1970), no. 90; and Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 360.