Artist: Okumura Masanobu
Title: Fuyu: Shiki no Sakiwake Yuki no Ume (Winter: Pictures of the Four Seasons: Plum Blossoms in the Snow)
Date: mid 1720s
Details: More information...
Source:
Honolulu Museum of Art
Browse all 5,435 prints...
Description:
An actor, likely the Osaka actor Yamashita Kinsaku, portrays a young woman leading a dog through a snowy landscape. This is the winter image from a series of the four seasons. It is subtitled “Plum Blossoms in the Snow” and the flowers suggest an early spring Kabuki theatrical performance. A cartouche on the bottom says that this print is an original by Masanobu, and the gourd-shaped seal functioned much as copyright marks do today. (from Original Intent exhibition 11/21/06-)