HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20.7cm.); Nigatsu, Mizube no ume (Second month, Plum tree by water), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen (Scenes of daily life with poems of four seasons), mistitled Furyu shiki kasen, blind-printed details to costumes, signed Harunobu ga--very good impression, some colors faded, worming on upper right corner, some restored minor worm holes, slightly trimmed
HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20.7cm.); Nigatsu, Mizube no ume (Second month, Plum tree by water), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen (Scenes of daily life with poems of four seasons), mistitled Furyu shiki kasen, blind-printed details to costumes, signed Harunobu ga--very good impression, some colors faded, worming on upper right corner, some restored minor worm holes, slightly trimmed

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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20.7cm.); Nigatsu, Mizube no ume (Second month, Plum tree by water), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen (Scenes of daily life with poems of four seasons), mistitled Furyu shiki kasen, blind-printed details to costumes, signed Harunobu ga--very good impression, some colors faded, worming on upper right corner, some restored minor worm holes, slightly trimmed

Lot Essay

From Harunobu's second series of pictures with verse for the twelve months (see also lot 323). Eight images are known, all with poetic or extended titles, and all are signed Harunobu ga.

Other impressions are in the Takahashi Collection, Keio University Library (see Kobayashi Tadashi, Harunobu, vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e taikei [Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973], pl. 38; Kobayashi, ed., Harunobu, vol. 1 of Meihin soroimono ukiyo-e [Tokyo: Gyosei, 1991], pl. 27; and Kobayashi, ed., Harunobu, Nihon no bijutsu 5, no. 228 [Tokyo: Shibundo, 1985], fig. 114); Honolulu Academy of Arts (see Harunobu in Zaigai hiho: Obei shuzo ukiyo-e shusei [Tokyo: Gakushu Kenkyusha, 1969-73], pl. 35); Tokyo National Museum (see Tokyo National Museum, ed., vol. 1 of Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Ukiyo-e hanga hen/Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum [Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1974], no. 492; Harunobu, Botsugo nihyakunen ten/Harunobu, exhibition commemorating 200th anniversary of his death, exh. cat. [Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1970], no. 96; and Tokyo National Musuem, ed., Bijinga I, vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e zenshu [Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1967-70], no. 28); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (see C. van Rappard-Boon, gen. ed., The Age of Harunobu: early Japanese Prints c. 1700-1780, vol. 1 of Catalogue of the Collection of Japanese Prints [Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet/Rijksmuseum, 1977], no. 39); and elsewhere (see Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu [Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942], no. 496).