The Fifth Month, Rain
Artist: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, ca. 1724-1770)
Date: about 1768
Dimensions:
sheet: 10 15/16 x 8 1/8 in. (27.8 x 20.6 cm)
Medium: color woodblock print
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2004.35
Label Text:The two tall beauties of the pleasure quarter carry towels and wear leg-revealing robes, apparently on their way to one of the public bathhouses. They pass a young girl, a courtesan-in-training.
As the title of the series suggests, this design includes a play or parody between a classical poem associated with one of the four seasons and a contemporary scene. The poem, inscribed across the top of the print in a cloud-like register, reads:
The downpour
sometimes ceases;
but the summer clouds
even with sunlight
remain in the sky.
As the title of the series suggests, this design includes a play or parody between a classical poem associated with one of the four seasons and a contemporary scene. The poem, inscribed across the top of the print in a cloud-like register, reads:
The downpour
sometimes ceases;
but the summer clouds
even with sunlight
remain in the sky.
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