cma-japanese-art: Passing the Bamboo Grove, Suzuki Harunobu, 1868, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese
cma-japanese-art: Passing the Bamboo Grove, Suzuki Harunobu, 1868, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese ArtThe first state of this print was privately issued as a calendar print for 1766, with the months of the year depicted in the woman’s sash. It was illegal to sell any type of calendar without a government license, and this print is a later state with the calendar replaced with a checked pattern so that the print could be sold commercially.Size: Sheet: 34.7 x 21.3 cm (13 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)Medium: color woodblock printhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1930.176 -- source link
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