Catalog record · 目録番号 120917
The Twelfth Month (Gokugetsu)
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. It is still the custom in Japan, as in some other Asian cultures, to give the house a thorough clean in the last month of the year. In this way the past is put behind, in preparation for the new year. Any cleaning that might have been planned by these young boys has been forgotten as fun and frolics take centre stage. Materials: Woodblock print on paper
Image record / 画像情報
MET · [between 1764 and 1772, printed later] · met
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