Lot 332
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HARUNOBU: oban tate-e (38 x 25.8cm.); a young couple dressed in black and white carrying basket-shaped hats and bamboo flutes, the accoutrements of itinerant monks called komuso, the white robe enhanced by gauffrage, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga, with publisher's mark of Maruya Jimpachi--very good impression, pale-blue background unevenly faded into saffron, worming and top and bottom edges restored, hand-colored around contours of figures
HARUNOBU: oban tate-e (38 x 25.8cm.); a young couple dressed in black and white carrying basket-shaped hats and bamboo flutes, the accoutrements of itinerant monks called komuso, the white robe enhanced by gauffrage, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga, with publisher's mark of Maruya Jimpachi--very good impression, pale-blue background unevenly faded into saffron, worming and top and bottom edges restored, hand-colored around contours of figures

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HARUNOBU: oban tate-e (38 x 25.8cm.); a young couple dressed in black and white carrying basket-shaped hats and bamboo flutes, the accoutrements of itinerant monks called komuso, the white robe enhanced by gauffrage, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga, with publisher's mark of Maruya Jimpachi--very good impression, pale-blue background unevenly faded into saffron, worming and top and bottom edges restored, hand-colored around contours of figures

Lot Essay

There are two states of this image, with and without the publisher Maruya Jimpachi's mark carved in reserve on the background.

Impressions with publisher's mark are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (see David B. Waterhouse, Bosuton bijutsukan/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, supplemental vol. 2, Harunobu II in Ukiyo-e shuka [Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1982], pl. 406); and Yale University Art Gallery (see Jack Hillier, Suzuki Harunobu: An exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death in 1770, exh. cat. [Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970], no. 133).

An impression without publisher's mark is illustrated in Harunobu in Zaigai hiho: Obei shuzo ukiyo-e shusei (Tokyo: Gakushu Kenkyusha, 1969-73), pl. 68; and Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 625.