Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 68517
A Beauty Playing the Koto
- Artist / 作者
- Suzuki Harunobu鈴木春信
- Date / 年代
- 1764-1771
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 337 × 450 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
Suzuki Harunobu is known as the inventor of the brocade (polychrome) print. His entire artistic life was altered by an invention by which as many as thirty different colors could be applied to one print. In 1765, at the age of forty, Harunobu first issued about one hundred magnificently colored prints. For the next five years, until his death in 1770, he issued more than 600 of these popular brocade prints. His depiction of beautiful women dominated the Meiwa era (1764-1772). Michener summarizes Harunobu's prints in the following manner: ".... adorable young girls never past their teens, dream-like heavenly flowers, and some of the most perfect color harmonies attained in art." The girl pla…
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