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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Lot 720 AProperty from the Collection of Max Palevsky

Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)

Ritual of Climbing the Stairs One Hundred Times (Ohyakudo), ca. 1765-66

Closed14 September 2011

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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Ritual of Climbing the Stairs One Hundred Times (Ohyakudo), ca. 1765-66
Woodcut of a young woman perfoming the ritual of climbing temple steps one hundred times, leaving a paper marker at the top of the stone stairs, the five markers left in her hand indicating she is on her 96th climb, unsigned second state of a calendar print (egoyomi) for 1765, here lacking the designations of long and short months in the obi and redesigned with fretwork--very good impression, slightly faded, smudging and random stains, minute repairs
chuban tate-e: 10 7/16 x 7¾in. (26.5 x 19.7cm.)

Louis Gonse (1846-1921), Paris (red monogram seal on verso)

Specialist note

For the first state, see Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, eds., Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860, exh. cat. (New York: Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2008), fig. 56 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 11.19437) or access www.mfa.org/collections.