Block 62

Lot 43. SAIGYO HOSHI PRAYING TO A BIJIN FUGEN

Lot 43. SAIGYO HOSHI PRAYING TO A BIJIN FUGEN

Image is an example from the Honolulu Museum of Art

SUZUKI HARUNOBU (B. about 1730, d. 1770)

This subject is an Ukiyo-e pleasantry, a Japanese oiran being substituted for the Dhyani Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, known in Japan as Fugen. She appears to the priest in a vision, seated on a white elephant.

Chuban. Signed: Harunobu ga. About 1766.

Purchaser: Charles H. Chandler
Price: $50.00

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