梅, Blowing Soap Bubbles Under the Plum Blossom, Suzuki Harunobu

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梅, Blowing Soap Bubbles Under the Plum Blossom, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 x 8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770), In this print the device is again employed of a classical poem incorporated into a cloudlike formation at the top. The poem reads, freely: 'I do not want my mind to be tainted by the smell and color of the plums, but the wind stealthily carries the mysterious scent and color into my sleeve

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Size: 3643px × 4937px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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