Edo period (1615-1868), mid-18th century A large oban benizuri-e print depicting a pair of lovers in the guise of komuso (mendicant monks), each dressed in elaborately patterned robes with a black monk's stole draped across their shoulders, walking in high geta (clogs) and playing the classic komuso tune renbo nagashi on their shakuhachi (bamboo flutes), the youth wearing the characteristic deep sedge tengai hat, his companion donning a saki kogai hairstyle, a hokku verse to the right of the girl, stamped at the bottom right corner with the collector's seal of Henri Vever; signed Hogetsudo Tanchosai Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu shohitsu with two seals Tanchosai and Okumura Masanobu. 42.3cm x 30.7cm (16¾in x 12 1/16in).