Preparing for the New Year's Festival
Artist
Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川 春潮
(Japanese, active about 1781–1801)
Publisherpublished by
Izumiya Ichibei 和泉屋市兵衛 (Kansendō 甘泉堂)
(Japanese)
Date1780s
Mediummulitcolored woodblock print
Dimensions37.5 x 75.6 cm (14 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.59.33
DescriptionDomestic scene. Women getting their house in order on the first day of the year. The shimanawa, or ropes hund iwth straw tasses and gohei (cut paper strips) have been affixed to the girders where they are visible. At the right a woman holds a Pekines dog in her arms and watches two boys play fukubiki (fortune drawing). Back of her twoOn View
Not on view
Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川 春潮
about 1788
