Art Institute of Chicago

Beauty and Morning Glories

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 (Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770)

Date

Mid-18th century

Medium

Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Culture

Japan

Department

Arts of Asia

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

A young woman just out of her bath stands barefoot in a room opening onto a veranda. As she places a comb in her hair, she gazes at a casual but careful display of morning glories (asagao) growing in a flat box and trained over a small bamboo trellis. This print is a pillar picture (hashira-e), so called because it is the perfect size to be pasted onto an architectural pillar (hashira) for display in a home, restaurant, or other public or private space.

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