Beauty and Morning Glories

Arts of Asia

Mid-18th century

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

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Suzuki Harunobu
Title: Beauty and Morning Glories
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1725–1770
Medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e
Dimensions: 68.9 × 12 cm (27 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley
Reference Number: 1970.490
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