Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 120919

The Fourth Month (Shigatsu)

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: 2871 × 3832 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者: 小春ユイ
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. In this, the fourth print of the series, boys play a game of ‘tie the tail on the devil’ in the fourth month. Materials: Woodblock print on paper

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