Aki|風俗四季歌仙 立秋|First Day of Autumn (Risshu)
Suzuki Harunobu
ca. 1865 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art
In old Japan, autumn comprised the seventh, eighth, and ninth months of the lunar calendar. The print shows a woman in the blue-and-white striped "yukata" and a girl looking through the open "shoji" at the right, where bamboo and poem-slip decorations for the Tanabata Festival (seventh day of the seventh month) are seen above the housetops. The lantern hanging outside the "shoji" is also a Tanabata decoration.
- Artist
- Suzuki Harunobu
- Date
- ca. 1865
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1922
