HARUNOBU: hosoban (31.2 x 13.4cm.); Kayoi Komachi (Komachi on the way), a courtesan and her kamuro on a veranda, from the series Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi (Seven episodes from the life of Komachi in elegant modern dress), a square cartouche above illustrating Komachi's spurned lover Fukakusa, unsigned--good impression and color, slight soiling and some minute stains
HARUNOBU: hosoban (31.2 x 13.4cm.); Kayoi Komachi (Komachi on the way), a courtesan and her kamuro on a veranda, from the series Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi (Seven episodes from the life of Komachi in elegant modern dress), a square cartouche above illustrating Komachi's spurned lover Fukakusa, unsigned--good impression and color, slight soiling and some minute stains

细节
HARUNOBU: hosoban (31.2 x 13.4cm.); Kayoi Komachi (Komachi on the way), a courtesan and her kamuro on a veranda, from the series Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi (Seven episodes from the life of Komachi in elegant modern dress), a square cartouche above illustrating Komachi's spurned lover Fukakusa, unsigned--good impression and color, slight soiling and some minute stains

拍品专文

There are two states of prints in this series, with and without signatures. Another unsigned impression is illustrated in Helen C. Gunsaulus, Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, their Followers and Contemporaries, in The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1965), no. 102; impressions signed Harunobu are illustrated in Yoshida, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), no. 174; and Waterhouse, Harunobu and his Age: The Development of Colour Printing in Japan (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1964), no. 22 (British Museum).