Lot Essay
This impression is illustrated in Jack Hillier, Suzuki Harunobu; An Exhibition of his Colour-Prints and Illustrated Books on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of his Death in 1770 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970), no.15; other impressions are illustrated in David Waterhouse, Harunobu and His Age: The Development of Colour Printing in Japan (London: The British Museum, 1964), no. 46 and Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942), pl. 259.