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Edo prints

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	Design:	Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770)
	Title:	Homing geese on the Sumida River
	Series title:	Eight fashionable views of Edo
	Size:	29.5 x 21.3 cm (chūban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Originally published in 1768.

Special effects: embossing (karazuri) on the white kimono of the standing lady.

Artist’s signature in left print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
春	haru	spring
信	shin	faith	Picture by
画	ga	picture	Harunobu

Print title in top right area of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
角	sumi	spring
田	ta	rice paddy
川	kawa	river
落	raku	spring	Homing geese
雁	gan	spring	on the Sumida river

Followed by the poem:

koete koshi mine wa amata no kumoji yori Sumida ga hara ni otsuru karigane

They cross in passage countless peaks on their pathway through the clouds, whence now on fields at Sumida they alight - the wild crying geese.

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References

• Chiba City Museum of Art (2002). Suzuki Harunobu. Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art and Hagi Uragami Museum

• 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.

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Provenance: Fuji Arts