Lot 337
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Attributed to HARUSHIGE: chuban (28 x 21cm.); Yaezakura (Double-cherry), the courtesan Motoura of the Yamasakiya in Shinagawa seated by a window holding a pipe, her kamuro observing the bay from a telescope, from the series Ukiyo bijin hana ni yosu (Poems on flowers with beauties of the floating world), bearing signature Harunobu ga--very good impression, some colors slightly faded, slight stains near edges, small tears restored
Attributed to HARUSHIGE: chuban (28 x 21cm.); Yaezakura (Double-cherry), the courtesan Motoura of the Yamasakiya in Shinagawa seated by a window holding a pipe, her kamuro observing the bay from a telescope, from the series Ukiyo bijin hana ni yosu (Poems on flowers with beauties of the floating world), bearing signature Harunobu ga--very good impression, some colors slightly faded, slight stains near edges, small tears restored

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Attributed to HARUSHIGE: chuban (28 x 21cm.); Yaezakura (Double-cherry), the courtesan Motoura of the Yamasakiya in Shinagawa seated by a window holding a pipe, her kamuro observing the bay from a telescope, from the series Ukiyo bijin hana ni yosu (Poems on flowers with beauties of the floating world), bearing signature Harunobu ga--very good impression, some colors slightly faded, slight stains near edges, small tears restored

Lot Essay

In her catalogue of the Clarence Buckingham Collection in the Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Gunsaulus attributes this print to Harushige. Jack Hillier "rejects this supposition" in his entry for this image in Suzuki Harunobu... (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970), no. 205, but others have remarked that the drawing of the faces and composition resemble the work of Harushige more than Harunobu.