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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Lot 903Property from the Collection of Max Palevsky

Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)

Preparing Seven-herb Porridge (nazuna) for the New Year, ca. 1766-67

Fermé23 March 2011

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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Preparing Seven-herb Porridge (nazuna) for the New Year, ca. 1766-67
Woodcut of a young woman chopping on a board balanced on a washtub spring herbs to flavor a special porridge of rice gruel eaten on the seventh day of the first month of a new year, in the background a festooned stand set for the meal--very good impression and generally very good color, purple pigment at collar slightly faded, minor foxing, generally very good condition
chuban tate-e: 11 x 7 7/8in. (27.8 x 20cm.)

Henri Vever (1854-1943), Paris (red seal lower right)

Note du spécialiste

Hillier remarks in his 1976 book on the collection (no. 103) on the rarity of the design, noting its omission from Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu (Complete works of Harunobu) (Tokyo: Takamizawa mokuhansha, 1942). For the version in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (11.19470) access .