Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770)

Ariwara no Narihira, from the series Furyu rokkasen (Fashionable six immortal poets)

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Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770)
Ariwara no Narihira, from the series Furyu rokkasen (Fashionable six immortal poets)
A girl contemplating the moon, poem in the cloud band above, signed Harunobu ga, first state without pattern on the wall behind the vase, with patterned edge of the screen, wood grain-patterned sash on the figure--very good impression, good color though some pigment slightly faded, some faint creases
chuban: 27.9 x 19.7cm.

Provenance

Nishimura Sozaemon
Edith Ehrman

Exhibited

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Suzuki Harunobu: An exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death in 1770," 1970.9.18-11.22.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED Jack Hillier, Suzuki Harunobu: An exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death in 1770, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970), no. 111.
Kobayashi Tadashi, Harunobu, vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973), no. 120.

For the second state in the Grabhorn Collection, see Hillier, op. cit., no. 112; Howard A. Link, Narazaki Muneshige and Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Honoruru bijutsukan/Honolulu Academy of Arts, Edwin & Irma Grabhorn Collection, vol. 10 of Ukiyo-e shuka (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1979), pl. 178; Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Gurabuhon korekushon ukiyo-e meihin ten/Grabhorn Collection (Tokyo: Bun You Sha, 1995), pl. 32.

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