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Look at the snow lying along the umbrella, the two faces close together beneath it, and the reeds bending under snow by the stream at the right.
A young man in a hood and a young woman share one umbrella on a walk through the snow beside a stream. Isoda Koryūsai, a pupil of Harunobu, designed the print about 1770, a few years after full-color printing was perfected, and signed it at the right. A verse in the snowy sky at the upper right carries the name of the poet Bashō.
Color woodblock print; chuban · 26.2 × 19.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Young Couple Under an Umbrella in the Snow
- Artist
- Isoda Koryusai Japanese, 1735-1790
- Date
- c. 1770
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Dimensions
- 26.2 × 19.7 cm (10 1/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.