Ide no Tamagawa: Yamashiro no meisho (The Crystal River at Ide: a famous spot in Yamashiro), from the series Fuzuko mu Tamagawa (Popular Six Crystal Rivers)

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Ide no Tamagawa: Yamashiro no meisho (The Crystal River at Ide: a famous spot in Yamashiro), from the series Fuzuko mu Tamagawa (Popular Six Crystal Rivers)

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The early works of Suzuki Harunobu (c. 1725–70) drew on Yamato-e ‘Japanese picture’ precedents, recording genre scenes of everyday life and festivals, and people at work and play, in delicately designed compositions. By the mid-1760s, however, he had become a bijin-ga specialist, focusing especially on informal views of young, self-absorbed and elegantly disposed young women. He quickly capitalised on the most recent innovations of pigment and print registration technology and the potential t...

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1769-70

Creator

Suzuki Harunobu

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1527611

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women / Rivers / Japan (Nihon) / paper / ink / colour woodcuts / works on paper / woodcut / Middle Edo / Japanese / Poetry / Tokyo

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