HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20 cm.); the waitress Osen offering tea to a customer at her stall at the Kasumori shrine, signed Harunobu ga- very good impression, slightly faded and oxidized, lightly stained, laid down on paper

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HARUNOBU: chuban (27.2 x 20 cm.); the waitress Osen offering tea to a customer at her stall at the Kasumori shrine, signed Harunobu ga- very good impression, slightly faded and oxidized, lightly stained, laid down on paper

Lot Essay

As noted in the catalogue entry for this print in the collection of the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (1977), the man pictured as a samurai may be a portrait of the actor Segawa Kikunojo II with whom Osen eloped in 1770