Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 67283
The Fourth Month (Uzuki)
- Artist / 作者
- Suzuki Harunobu鈴木春信
- Date / 年代
- 1763-1773
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / met
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2886 × 3851 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
The design shows a young man in komuso (itinerant priest) guise standing before a barred window from which two girls are looking. He turns to watch the flight of a cuckoo bird overhead. The cloud pattern above includes the following verse: Ask people In the time of the fourth month To view the rustic fence Where the deutzia flowers are in full bloom Like butterflies.” The lining of the kimono and the obi has urushizumi, or lacquer pigment, that accentuates the figure's strong lines, but all of the other colors are natural. The fourth month would be about the time in Japan that spring becomes summer. (from Summer Evenings: Harunobu exhibition 5/30/06-)
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