Edo prints
| Design: | Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | |||||
| Title: | Returning sails of the towel rack | |||||
| Series title: | Eight Parlour Views | |||||
| Size: | 28.6 x 21.2 cm (chūban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally published in 1766, this printing is an early post-war period original edition from publisher Takamizawa.
Red publisher stamp on verso of the print:
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The stamp consists of the Takamizawa seal, the roman text ‘‘Takamizawa Print’’, and the following kanji:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 高 | taka | high | |
| 見 | mi(ru) | see | |
| 沢 | sawa | marsh | |
| 忠 | tada | faithfulness | |
| 雄 | o | great | Made |
| 製 | sei | manufacture | by |
| 作 | saku | make | Takamizawa Tadao |
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.
Provenance: The Mokuhankan website of David Bull