Picture Book: The Brocade of Spring, vol. 2

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Picture Book: The Brocade of Spring, vol. 2

Suzuki Harunobu; Publisher: Yamazaki Kinbei; Carver: Endō Matsugorō; Author: Preface by Hekigyokudō 碧玉堂

Date
1771
Medium
Woodblock printed book, ink and color on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

A few months after Harunobu’s death, the two-volume Picture Book: The Brocade of Spring was published, offering poems alongside illustrations of prostitutes. Harunobu must have completed his illustrations in time for the book before his passing. Japan, Asia

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