Untitled

Isoda Koryūsai

ca. 1769 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Koryūsai's light-hearted pair are accompanied by the lines of a poem above the umbrella that read both visually and verbally as the colors and capricious sunshine of spring weather: Mada aoki higasa ya ruri wo nagashikeri In days still young and green the new parasol floods with azure.

Artist

Isoda Koryūsai

Date

ca. 1769

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911