The Harunobu Decade presents some 700 prints from Harunobu and his immediate followers and pupils, kept in the highly-acclaimed collection of Japanese prints of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The theme of this 2-volume publication is the development of full-color woodcut printing (nishiki-e) in Edo in 1765 and 1766, and its immediate adaptations for commercial purposes during the next five years. The artist who was at the center of this movement was Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-70); and most of the catalogue is devoted to his work, including early prints produced before 1765. Almost all of the prints were produced in the decade from the early 1760s to the early 1770s.
David Waterhouse’s elaborate descriptions of the prints are accompanied by full-color illustrations and make The Harunobu Decade an excellent resource for scholars and collectors of early Japanese prints.
