The Jewel River at Chofu (Chofu no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers

In this 1761 chuban print, Suzuki Harunobu engages the classical poetic theme of the six Tamagawa, or Jewel Rivers, with a design devoted to the Tamagawa at Chofu in Musashi Province. The six Jewel Rivers were a long-standing pictorial and poetic cluster in Japanese tradition, each river paired with a specific seasonal activity and an associated poem from the imperial anthologies. The Chofu Tamagawa was famously linked to women fulling cloth, a labor often depicted as taking place along the river's banks. Harunobu transforms this canonical motif into a chuban bijin-ga vignette, presenting his idealized slender figures engaged in fulling or laundering by the water in a setting that hovers between observed reality and poetic emblem. The decorative landscape, with its softened banks, gentle ripples, and flattened sky, is in keeping with the early-1760s Edo ukiyo-e style, and the print belongs to the broader Harunobu enterprise of reanimating classical poetic geography through the daily activities of contemporary women. Produced shortly before the 1765 breakthrough of full-color nishiki-e, the design demonstrates Harunobu's growing command of color planning and his fluent integration of figure and landscape. Held by the Art Institute of Chicago, the print provides an excellent example of Suzuki Harunobu's contribution to the Six Jewel Rivers theme, a subject that would be revisited by later masters such as Utamaro and Hiroshige but which Harunobu treated with his characteristic literary refinement.