Introduction

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Hishikawa Moronobu
Okumura Masanobu
Suzuki Harunobu
Katsukawa Shunshō
Tsutaya Jūzaburō
Hokusai and His Circle
The Nineteenth Century

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Suzuki Harunobu: Prints in Full Color

Harunobu’s five volumes of courtesan portraits of 1770 constitute the only color-printed book published in his lifetime. A different publisher issued the book shown here, in two volumes and in a smaller format, in the first month of Meiwa 8 (1771), a few months after the artist’s death. As the block cutter is the same one named in the 1770 book and the illustrations are authentic in style, it is likely that Harunobu completed the preliminary drawings for the book before his death.

Photo: Courtesy of lender

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