HARUNOBU and attributed to HARUSHIGE: chuban (28 x 21cm. ea. approx.) and other sizes; group of eight prints by Harunobu: Samidare (Rain in the fifth month), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen; lovers by a stream, the young man removing snow clogged in her sandal; a man in a snow-covered garden arranging bonsai; a young couple by a wellhead; two women and a man in an interior; Hotei crossing a river carrying a beauty on his back; Hira bosetsu (Evening snow at Hira), from the series Omi hakkei; a mizu-e of Sojo Henjo standing on a terrace on a lotus pond; and attributed to Harunobu: an e-goyomi (illustrated calender) of Meiwa 2 (1756) of Hotoke Gosen dancing before Taira no Kiyomori and his consort Gio, and another attributed to Harushige: a couple on a terrace looking at snow--generally good impressions, mixed condition, some with reprinted colors (10)

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HARUNOBU and attributed to HARUSHIGE: chuban (28 x 21cm. ea. approx.) and other sizes; group of eight prints by Harunobu: Samidare (Rain in the fifth month), from the series Fuzoku shiki kasen; lovers by a stream, the young man removing snow clogged in her sandal; a man in a snow-covered garden arranging bonsai; a young couple by a wellhead; two women and a man in an interior; Hotei crossing a river carrying a beauty on his back; Hira bosetsu (Evening snow at Hira), from the series Omi hakkei; a mizu-e of Sojo Henjo standing on a terrace on a lotus pond; and attributed to Harunobu: an e-goyomi (illustrated calender) of Meiwa 2 (1756) of Hotoke Gosen dancing before Taira no Kiyomori and his consort Gio, and another attributed to Harushige: a couple on a terrace looking at snow--generally good impressions, mixed condition, some with reprinted colors (10)

Lot Essay

According to Robert Treat Paine, the figures in the second print, a couple by a stream in snow, are taken from an illustration in a book by Nishikawa Sukenobu, Ehon minana kane, vol. 3 (1733). For other impressions of this print 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. 169; Kobayashi Tadashi, Harunobu, vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973), pl. 176.