Preparing Seven-herb Porridge (nazuna) for the New Year , ca. 1766-67

Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770) Preparing Seven-herb Porridge (nazuna) for the New Year, ca. 1766-67 Woodcut of a young woman chopping on a board balanced on a washtub spring herbs to flavor a special porridge of rice gruel eaten on the seventh day of the first month of a new year, in the background a festooned stand set for the meal--very good impression and generally very good color, purple pigment at collar slightly faded, minor foxing, generally very good condition chuban tate-e: 11 x 7 7/8in. (27.8 x 20cm.)