Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 120917
The Twelfth Month (Gokugetsu)
- Artist / 作者
- Ishikawa Toyomasa石川豊雅
- Date / 年代
- 1770-1775
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / met
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 3505 × 4000 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- CC0 1.0 only when Open Access-designated
- Attribution / 表記
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
Ishikawa Toyomasa was a print designer who specialised in pictures of children. This print belongs to a series of twelve prints entitled ‘The Twelve Months’, which depicts children at play in each month of the calendar year. It is still the custom in Japan, as in some other Asian cultures, to give the house a thorough clean in the last month of the year. In this way the past is put behind, in preparation for the new year. Any cleaning that might have been planned by these young boys has been forgotten as fun and frolics take centre stage. Materials: Woodblock print on paper
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