Osen of the Kagiya Combing a Young Man's Hair

男の髪を梳く鍵屋お仙

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1769 (Meiwa 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28 x 21.1 cm (11 x 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund

Accession NumberRES.56.6

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #468; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #274, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 519

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

InscriptionsPoem: Seki-aenu/ sode no namida no/ tamakazura/ kakete mo shiraji/ tagitsu kokoro o