Catalog record · 目録番号 68517
A Beauty Playing the Koto
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…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · c. 1767 - 1768 · honolulu
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