1923.24: Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower
PrintsThe young woman runs toward the right, bent down with her head under the umbrella, held with both hands, her kimono sleeves flying behind her creating a swooping movement. The kimono, tied in the back, flows around her running legs. Her face is fair and delicate, her black hair is combed back and tied up into a bun. The rain is depicted with heavy diagonal strokes of black ink pouring from a dark cloud in the upper right, with two angular lightning bolts flashing from the sky.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1923.24
- People
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Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Japanese (1725-1770)
- Title
- Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1765–70
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208627
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- chūban: H. 27.1 × W. 20.6 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: (printed) Harunobu ga
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John T. Spaulding, William S. Spaulding, Felix M. Warburg, A. Kingsley Porter and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1923
- Object Number
- 1923.24
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Narazaki Muneshige, Ukiyo-e shuka [Collection of the Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints in Museums] Volume 8: Foggu Bijutsukan [Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University], Neruson Bijutsukan [Nelson Atkins Museum]..., Shogaku-kan (Tokyo, Japan, 1980 [Showa 55]), Color Plate 004; pp. 16-17
- Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 59, p. 58
- Sugiura Hinako, Oedo furyu sanpo michi [Walking Path in the Edo Style] (Tokyo, 2005), p. 162/Fig. 2
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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