Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770)
Edo period (1615-1868), circa late 1760s
Two chuban yoko-e erotic prints: the first from the series Enshoku koi no urakata (The Spell of Amorous Love), depicting a couple startled as a young girl suddenly enters the room through the noren (doorway curtain), unsigned, with a collector's seal of Hayashi Tadamasa at the lower right corner, mounted on a paper, 18.5cm x 25cm (7¼in x 9 7/8in); the second depicting a woman making a love to her lover beside her husband, sleeping unaware on a futon, unsigned, 20.5cm x 27cm (8 1/16in x 10 5/8in). (2).
Footnotes:
Provenance:
The first: Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) Collection.
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