Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

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Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | The complete set of Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma), known as the Marriage series | Edo period, 18th century

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Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770)

The complete set of Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma), known as the Marriage series

Edo period, 18^th century

the complete set of seven woodblock prints, embellished with embossing, from the series Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma), known as the Marriage series, each signed Harunobu ga (Pictured by Harunobu), circa 1769; each with collectors' seals of Hayashi Tadamasa, Felix Tikotin and Gerhard Pulverer, and comprising:

- Introductory Meeting (Miai)

- Exchange of Gifts (Yuino)

- The Bride Riding in the Palanquin (Koshi-iri)

- The Sake Cup (Sakazuki)

- The Bride Changing Clothes (Iro-naoshi)

- The Cup of Sake before Bed (Toko-sakazuki)

- The Birth of the First Child (Uizan)

Horizontal chuban: each approx. 22 x 28.6 cm., 8⅝ x 11¼ in.

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Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770), Série complète des Mariages, époque Edo, XVIIIe siècle

Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)

Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949)

Edith Ehrman (1932-1974)

Felix Tikotin (1893-1986)

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

Jack Hillier, Suzuki Harunobu (Philadelphia, 1970), pg. 168-69. ('Introductory Meeting' and 'The Bride Riding in the Palanquin')

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), nos. 13-19.

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), pp. 26-29, nos. 1-18-1-24.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Suzuki Harunobu, 18 September - 22 November 1970. ('Introductory Meeting' and 'The Bride Riding in the Palanquin')

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991

Other impressions of the complete set are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession numbers 21.4452, 21.4453, 11.19477, 11.19475, 21.4456, 21.4457 and 21.4458.

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