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u/jeresig ยท 3 pointsr/museum

Ooh ooh! I have some books for you, then :) I assume that you can probably find a lot of these through your school library:

  • Inside Designed for Pleasure the essay "Suzuki Harunobu: The Cult and Culture of Color". (IMO, if you get nothing but this and read this essay, it'll probably write whatever you're researching for you.)
  • Inside The Commercial and Cultural Climate of Japanese Printmaking the essays "The Cultural Milieu of Suzuki Harunobu" and "'This is What We Accomplished': An Osaka Print Collector and His Circle" (the second one isn't about Harunobu in particular but it can help you understand the dynamic of poetry circles, of which Harunobu was an active participant).

    I also have two catalogues of Harunobu prints, Harunobu and his age (British Museum) and Suzuki Harunobu (Philadelphia Museum of Art) (out of which the latter is the better book, when in doubt, go with the book that was more-recently published, Ukiyo-e scholarship has greatly improved over the past 40 years). I really want to find this catalogue: Suzuki Harunobu (Chiba City Museum) but haven't been able to find one yet.

    Hope this helps and enjoy - Harunobu is fascinating! Let me know if you have any questions.