Yabu Chosui. Snowy Rabbit. 1867. Japan. Color woodblock print; surimono This image of a rabbit on a black-lacquer tray set against a backdrop of plum blossoms was designed by Yabu Chosui as a New Year’s message of poetry and art. The rabbit refers to the tradition of forming a rabbit out of snow at the New Year. Chosui succeeded in realizing the soft contours of a snow figure by embossing the rabbit using the kimekomi technique.

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