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Takasago, from the series Fashionable Parodies of Nô Plays (Fûryû utai mitate)


「風流うたひ見立 高砂」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chuban; 27.2 x 19.9 cm (10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.469
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #347; Haft, Aesthetic Strategies (2013), fig. 81 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #322.4, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 473
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
Inscriptions1. Quotation from Takasago: Ikoku ni mo honchô ni mo/ banmin kore wo shôkan su
2. Setsugekka/ matsu hototogisu/ hatsugatsuo
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross