Japan: 'Courtesan Walking in the Snow'. Ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series 'Fashionable Snow, Moon and Flowers' by Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770), c. 1767-1769. Suzuki Harunobu was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-colour prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of subjects, from classical poems to contemporary beauties (bijin, bijin-ga) and shunga (erotica).

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