鈴木春信画　将棋・三十六歌仙　「中納言兼輔」, A Young Woman and Man Playing Shōgi (Japanese Chess); Chūnagon Kanesuke

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鈴木春信画　将棋・三十六歌仙　「中納言兼輔」, A Young Woman and Man Playing Shōgi (Japanese Chess); Chūnagon Kanesuke, from a series alluding to the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals (Sanjūrokkasen), Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1767–69, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770), A young woman watches her male companion make the final moves in a game of shōgi (Japanese chess) next to an andon floor lamp signaling nighttime and a fan indicating summer. The series to which this print belongs links classical poems by thirty-six of the most famous poets of ancient and medieval times with up-to-date images of young men and women in fashionable garb

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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