Edo prints
| Design: | Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | |||||
| Title: | Woman reading a letter while riding a crane: parody of Fei Zhangfang | |||||
| Size: | 27.2 x 20.9 cm (chūban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: Embossing (gauffrage/blind printing) on letter and on wings of the crane.
Originally published in 1766-67.
Artist’s signature in lower print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 春 | haru | spring | |
| 信 | shin | faith | Picture by |
| 画 | ga | picture | Harunobu |
References
- Waterhouse, David (2013). The Harunobu decade. A catalogue of woodcuts by Suzuki Harunobu and his followers in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV (#184).
Provenance: Hans Lempers on the 2014 Japan market in Leiden, the Netherlands