HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20.8cm.); a young woman with an umbrella passing a willow in a storm, clutching her kimono in the strong wind, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, faded, minor restored worming, some retouching along contours of the figure
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20.8cm.); a young woman with an umbrella passing a willow in a storm, clutching her kimono in the strong wind, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, faded, minor restored worming, some retouching along contours of the figure

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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20.8cm.); a young woman with an umbrella passing a willow in a storm, clutching her kimono in the strong wind, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, faded, minor restored worming, some retouching along contours of the figure

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Other impressions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (see David B. Waterhouse, Bosuton bijutsukan/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, supplemental vol. 1, Harunobu I in Ukiyo-e shuka [Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1982], no. 276); Art Institute of Chicago, (see Helen C. Gunsaulus, Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, their Followers and Contemporaries, in The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints: [Chicago: The Art Institute, 1965], no. 74); and elsewhere (see Yoshida Teruji, gen. ed., Nishiki-e soshi jidai (2), vol. 5 of Ukiyo-e taisei [Tokyo: Taihokaku, 1930]; and Yoshida, Harunobu zenshu [Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942], no. 297).