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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.4 x 19.8cm.); two young lovers by a wellhead under a paulownia branch, illustrating a scene from Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise), signed Harunobu ga, grey ground--very good impression, generally good color though some pigments faded, worming restored, retouching in small area at center of the pulley
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.4 x 19.8cm.); two young lovers by a wellhead under a paulownia branch, illustrating a scene from Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise), signed Harunobu ga, grey ground--very good impression, generally good color though some pigments faded, worming restored, retouching in small area at center of the pulley

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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.4 x 19.8cm.); two young lovers by a wellhead under a paulownia branch, illustrating a scene from Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise), signed Harunobu ga, grey ground--very good impression, generally good color though some pigments faded, worming restored, retouching in small area at center of the pulley

Lot Essay

This is the darker printing state of two variants with different colors.

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. 312); and elsewhere (see Harunobu, Botsugo nihyakunen ten/Harunobu, exhibition commemorating 200th anniversary of his death, exh. cat. [Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1970], no. 226; Kobayashi Tadashi, Harunobu, vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e taikei [Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973], pl. 19; Kobayashi, ed., Harunobu, Nihon no bijutsu 5, no. 228 [Tokyo: Shibundo, 1985], fig. 107; and Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu [Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942]. no. 252).