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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableSuzuki Harunobu was a Japanese artist who lived in the 18th century and produced about seven hundred works in multicolor printing, called Nishikie. His art was based on the paintings of the Chinese painter Qiu Ying who had lived in the Ming Dynasty. Little is known about the life of Suzuki Harunobu. It is not clear whether he was born in Edo, today's Tokyo or Kyoto. Some art historians assume that he came from a samurai family and was very educated. Harunobu is considered to be a grandmaster of the middle Ukiyoe period and founder of Japanese colour printing. From today's perspective, he was the first artist to popularize multicolor printing. Initially, the painter worked mainly with the colors green and red. Later he used several colors for his prints. Harunobu lived and worked most of the time in Edo.
Typical for Suzuki Harunobu's representations were graceful female figures with inclined heads. Harunobus painting style was fine and expressive. The painter himself had no pupils of his own. However, imitators of his style are known. Harunobu used hidden allusions in his visual language. Thus he created picture calendars, called Egoyomi, which were very popular in his time. The picture calendars were given away among themselves. There was a competition to see who got the best picture calendar. This increased the demand for pictures of Suzuki Harunobu. The painter quickly became known to a wide range of buyers due to his multi-coloured wood prints. The works are still popular with collectors today.
Among the works of the painter were also parodies of well-known literary scenes, called mitates. Harunobu's main themes were everyday scenes and depictions of beautiful young girls, courtesans and their lovers. All figures appear young and fragile. The artist painted them in idealized form. The mood of the pictures is romantic and often a little melancholic. It is unusual that Harunobu was the first Japanese artist to show scenes of single figures and couples in the snow and at night. His complete works include drawings, paintings and woodblock prints. The painter created prints with erotic representations, called shunga (spring pictures) and illustrated many books. Harunobu died at the age of only 45 years.
Suzuki Harunobu was a Japanese artist who lived in the 18th century and produced about seven hundred works in multicolor printing, called Nishikie. His art was based on the paintings of the Chinese painter Qiu Ying who had lived in the Ming Dynasty. Little is known about the life of Suzuki Harunobu. It is not clear whether he was born in Edo, today's Tokyo or Kyoto. Some art historians assume that he came from a samurai family and was very educated. Harunobu is considered to be a grandmaster of the middle Ukiyoe period and founder of Japanese colour printing. From today's perspective, he was the first artist to popularize multicolor printing. Initially, the painter worked mainly with the colors green and red. Later he used several colors for his prints. Harunobu lived and worked most of the time in Edo.
Typical for Suzuki Harunobu's representations were graceful female figures with inclined heads. Harunobus painting style was fine and expressive. The painter himself had no pupils of his own. However, imitators of his style are known. Harunobu used hidden allusions in his visual language. Thus he created picture calendars, called Egoyomi, which were very popular in his time. The picture calendars were given away among themselves. There was a competition to see who got the best picture calendar. This increased the demand for pictures of Suzuki Harunobu. The painter quickly became known to a wide range of buyers due to his multi-coloured wood prints. The works are still popular with collectors today.
Among the works of the painter were also parodies of well-known literary scenes, called mitates. Harunobu's main themes were everyday scenes and depictions of beautiful young girls, courtesans and their lovers. All figures appear young and fragile. The artist painted them in idealized form. The mood of the pictures is romantic and often a little melancholic. It is unusual that Harunobu was the first Japanese artist to show scenes of single figures and couples in the snow and at night. His complete works include drawings, paintings and woodblock prints. The painter created prints with erotic representations, called shunga (spring pictures) and illustrated many books. Harunobu died at the age of only 45 years.
.jpg "Crow and Heron, or Young Lovers Walking Together under an Umbrella in a Snowstorm, c1769 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Caught in the Act by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Lovers Plying a Rooster with Sake by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "A Summer Scene on a Raised Embankment of a Young Man Cutting an Aubergine to Give to His Young Lady Companion by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-640559).jpg "Young Woman with a Lantern, 1765-70 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_(colour_woodblock_print)_-_(MeisterDrucke-945698).jpg "Plum Blossoms on a Dark Night by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Two Lovers Shunga - Erotic Woodblock Print by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "A naked mother washing her child in Japan near a basin filled with water. Prints by Haronobu Suzuki. 1766-1768. Paris, Guimet Museum, National Museum of Asian Arts by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Lovers with Young Attendant Looking On, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Two Lovers by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Lovers on Tatami Mats by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Lovers Beneath a Mosquito Net, 18th century by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "First Leaf of the Shunga, The Delightful Love Adventures of Maneyemon, ca. 1769 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_set_Eight_fashio_-_(MeisterDrucke-877843).jpg "Geese Descending on the Koto Bridges from the Set")
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.jpg "Lovers by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Eight_Fashionable_-_(MeisterDrucke-1274991).jpg "The Evening Mistress at Ueno, from the series")
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.jpg "Couple of lovers lying in an interior with screen, calligraphy box. Nishiki-e print by Suzuki Harunobu by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-223655).jpg "Lovers with a Bird Cage, Edo period by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Hotei, from the series")
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.jpg "Two Young Women Seated by a Kotatsu Playing Cat")
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.jpg "A Girl Writing a Letter, 18th century by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1300571).jpg "Casting a Curse at the Hour of the Ox by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1301203).jpg "Poem by Sojo Henjo, from the series \"Six Famous Poets\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Wisteria: The Courtesan Nokaze from the Southern Matsuzakaya (Beauties from the Floating World; Poems on Flowers) by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Courtesans playing music exposed to the eyes of voyeurs by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_ink_and_colors_J_-_(MeisterDrucke-1103779).jpg "Couple on the banks of the river by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Two Women in High Wind by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Tamonten, from the series \"The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Double-page Illustration from Vol. 2 of")
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.jpg "Two Girls Play the Finger Game of Kitsume Ken by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Benevolence: Courtesan Shaving the Neck of her Servant by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "The Snow-Clogged Geta by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-906557).jpg "Beauty Unrolling Scroll by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Woman and Maid Servant, late 1760s by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "The Cry of the Stag by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Eight_Views_of_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-1297733).jpg "The Evening Bell of the Clock, from the series")
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.jpg "Print, ca. 1762 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Eight_Views_-_(MeisterDrucke-1291771).jpg "Evening Snow on a Floss Shaper, from the series \"Eight Views of the Parlor\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "The Tama River at Ide, Yamashiro Province by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_Japan_-_(MeisterDrucke-1102039).jpg "Courtesans, by Suzuki Harunobu, Japan by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Popular_Versions_of_Immortal_Poets_in_Fo_-_(MeisterDrucke-1282968).jpg "The Third Month, from the series Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture Nozoki-karakuri, Kobo Daishi by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Beautie_-_(MeisterDrucke-1300120).jpg "Sumirena: The Mistress of Yojiya, from the Series")
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H_-_(MeisterDrucke-1371577).jpg "Two Girls on the Beach (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets) by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Kumagai Naozane and Taira no Atsumori, Episode from War Between Taira and Minamoto by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1423170).jpg "Pilgrimage by a Rainy Night, Japanese Stamp by Suzuki Harunobu by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Double-page Illustration from Vol. 2 of")
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.jpg "Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the Series Eight Parlor Views by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Woman Digging Bamboo Shoots in the Snow, or Parody of Meng Zong Moso, from Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_w_-_(MeisterDrucke-1102302).jpg "Servant Chasing Mice in House by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Two Young Women on a Verandah by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Woman Watching Young Couple Embrace on a Veranda by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Poem by Chosui, from the series")
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_from_the_series_Eight_Views_of_Omi_(Omi_ha_-_(MeisterDrucke-1614805).jpg "Night Rain at Karasaki, from the series \"Eight Views of Omi\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
_from_the_series_Eight_Views_of_Omi_(Omi_ha_-_(MeisterDrucke-1614805).jpg)
_The_Fourth_Month_(Uzuki)_from_the_series_Popular_Versions_of_Immorta_-_(MeisterDrucke-1299810).jpg "The Fourth Month, from the series \"Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Onna San no Miya the Third Princess, 1768-70 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Salt Maidens on the Tago-no-ura Beach with Mt. Fuji Behind by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Ono no Komachi, c. 1767 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Six_Jewel_River_-_(MeisterDrucke-1273524).jpg "The Jewel River of Plovers, from the series")
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.jpg "Lovers Walking in the Snow Crow and Heron by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Young Lovers Walking Together Under an Umbrella in a Snow Storm Crow and Heron by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "A Young Man and Woman with a Shamisen, Monk Saigyo by Suzuki Harunobu")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-598005).jpg "Strolling Kokyu Players by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_One_Hundred_Poems_by_One_Hundred_Poets_-_(MeisterDrucke-1272660).jpg "Empress Jito, from the series")
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.jpg "Two Girls Enjoying the Evening Cool in a Garden by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "A Water Vendor by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_the_sixth_sheet_of_the_series_Marriage_-_(MeisterDrucke-1273603).jpg "A Cup of Sake before Bed (Toko sakazuki), the Sixth Sheet of the Series \"Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
_the_sixth_sheet_of_the_series_Marriage_-_(MeisterDrucke-1273603).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1276052).jpg "Poem by Otomo no Kuronushi, from the series \"Six Famous Poets\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Six_Jewel_Rivers_in_Popu_-_(MeisterDrucke-1289712).jpg "The Koya Jewel River, from the series \"Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
_from_the_series_Six_Jewel_Rivers_in_Popu_-_(MeisterDrucke-1289712).jpg)
_the_fourth_sheet_of_the_series_Marriage_in_-_(MeisterDrucke-1298649).jpg "The Ceremonial Sake, the fourth sheet of the series")
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.jpg "Poem by Nakatsukasa, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Tickling her foot by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Visiting by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Beauty with Demons by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_an_untitled_series_of_Six_-_(MeisterDrucke-1282038).jpg "The Jewel River of Plovers, from an Untitled Series of Six Jewel Rivers by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Double-page Illustration from Vol. 2 of")
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.jpg "Playing Daimyo")
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_from_an_untitled_series_of_Flowers_-_(MeisterDrucke-1283982).jpg "Bush Clover (Hagi), from an untitled series of Flowers by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-984630).jpg "Unknown Play by Yoneyama Teiga by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Entertainer and Her Attendant in Front of Matsumoto-ya, c. 1768 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Ebisu, from the series The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Poem by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki, from an Untitled Series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Evening Glow of the Lantern, after 1766 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1100857).jpg "Women washing in river (Sada Foussa) by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1298958).jpg "An Evening Visit (A Parody of Junidan Soshi) by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Eight_Views_of_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-1300043).jpg "The Evening Bell of the Clock, from the series \"Eight Views of the Parlor\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1296466).jpg "The Elopement (parody of Akutagawa episode from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-260601).jpg "Mitate of Zhou Maoshu, after 1765 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Parody of a Chinese Immortal by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_The_Seven_Fashionable_Aspects_of_Komachi_(Furyu_-_(MeisterDrucke-1278680).jpg "Visiting (Kayoi), from the series")
_from_the_series_The_Seven_Fashionable_Aspects_of_Komachi_(Furyu_-_(MeisterDrucke-1278680).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-245389).jpg "Night Rain on the Tea Stand, after 1766 by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "The Jewel River at Ide, from the series The Six Jewel Rivers by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_the_series_Popular_Versions_of_Immortal_Poets_in_-_(MeisterDrucke-1299020).jpg "The Third Month, from the series")
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.jpg "Combing His Hair by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Benzaiten, from the series")
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.jpg "Double-page Illustration from Vol. 1 of \"Picture Book of Spring Brocades\" by Suzuki Harunobu")
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.jpg "Poem by Sakanoue no Korenori, from an Untitled Series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets by Suzuki Harunobu")
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_from_an_untitled_series_of_Si_-_(MeisterDrucke-1289669).jpg "The Jewel River of Bush Clovers, from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers by Suzuki Harunobu")
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