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SUZUKI HARUNOBU (1725-1770)
Osen of the Kagiya teahouse
Woodblock print, from the series Fuzoku ukiyo hakkei (Eight views of
customs in the floating world), signed Suzuki Harunobu ga, published circa
1768-69
Vertical chuban: 11 x 8¿ in. (27.9 x 20.6 cm.)
$6,000-8,000

Osen of the Kagiya tea-stall is serving tea to a customer at the
Kasamori Inari Shrine.

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SUZUKI HARUNOBU (1725-1770)
Minamoto no Saneakira Ason
Woodblock print, from an untitled series of Sanjurokkasen (Thirty-six
poetic immortals), signed Harunobu ga, published circa 1767-68
Vertical chuban: 11 x 8¿ in. (28 x 20.6 cm.)
$8,000-12,000

A young woman stands in a room overlooking a garden with a
stream running through it. The shoji panel behind her is painted
with a pair of mandarin ducks beside a snowy pond. On the floor
beside her is a smoking tray with utensils. The poem above reads:
koishisa wa/ onaji kokoro ni/ arazu to mo/ koyoi no tsuki wo/ kimi
mizarame ya (Even if your love/ for me is not as mine for/ you, you
could hardly/ fail to look at the moon that/ on this night shines
for us both). See, David Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade, (The
Netherlands, 2013), p. 22 and p. 146-7.
A similar imrpession is in the collection of the Art Institute of
Chicago, accession no. 1970.535.