Lot 333
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HARUNOBU: hashira-e (67.4 x 12cm.); Osen, seated on a bench by the entrance to Kasamori Shrine reading Bijin Natorigawa, a kibyoshi (literally, "yellow covers") novel, illustrated by Kitao Shigemasa, while a younger woman looks on, signed Harunobu ga--very good impression and color, slightly toned, glue-stained along edges, slight horizontal creases
HARUNOBU: hashira-e (67.4 x 12cm.); Osen, seated on a bench by the entrance to Kasamori Shrine reading Bijin Natorigawa, a kibyoshi (literally, "yellow covers") novel, illustrated by Kitao Shigemasa, while a younger woman looks on, signed Harunobu ga--very good impression and color, slightly toned, glue-stained along edges, slight horizontal creases

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HARUNOBU: hashira-e (67.4 x 12cm.); Osen, seated on a bench by the entrance to Kasamori Shrine reading Bijin Natorigawa, a kibyoshi (literally, "yellow covers") novel, illustrated by Kitao Shigemasa, while a younger woman looks on, signed Harunobu ga--very good impression and color, slightly toned, glue-stained along edges, slight horizontal creases

Lot Essay

There are two states of the print with color variants, and with and without the scalloped cloud line at the top. For an impression without the cloud see David B. Waterhouse, Bosuton bijutsukan/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, supplemental vol. 2, Harunobu II in Ukiyo-e shuka (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1982), pl. 445. For impressions with the cloud 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. 256; and Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 616.