Hishikawa Moronobu (ca. 1618-1694)
A Selection of Erotic Prints Lots 371--384
Hishikawa Moronobu (ca. 1618-1694)

Lovers with attendant

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Hishikawa Moronobu (ca. 1618-1694)
Lovers with attendant
Sumizuri-e album sheet with hand-applied color, depicting lovers under a mosquito net and a servant watching--very good impression, centerfold, soiled, stained, rubbed, damages
oban yoko-e: 26 x 34.3cm.

Lot Essay

This is plate 2 of the set of 12 given the modern title of Hana no katari (Flower song).

For other impressions see Donald Jenkins, Ukiyo-e prints and paintings/The primitive period 1680-1745 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), no. 9, p. 35; Howard A. Link et al., Honoruru bijutsukan/Honolulu Academy of Arts, and others, vol. 10 of Ukiyo-e shuka (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1979), no. 24, p. 215.

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