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Look at the round badges, each holding a small bird, scattered over her pink robe, then up past the umbrella to the snowflakes in the gray sky.
In another pillar print, a young woman bends against falling snow under a broad umbrella, holding her robe as she steps out on high wooden clogs. Harunobu’s prints in full color, with a separate block for every color, were called nishiki-e, brocade pictures, after the rich silks of the day. The Art Institute dates this sheet to about 1770, the year he died.
Color woodblock print; hashira-e · 65.5 × 13.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Beauty Under an Umbrella in the Snow
- Artist
- Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770
- Date
- c. 1770
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hashira-e
- Dimensions
- 65.5 × 13.1 cm (25 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Ukiyo-e c. 1600–1900
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.