Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Night Rain

Size: 31.0cm by 23.0cm (12.20 in by 9.06 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Suzuki Harunobu

Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 5,000$ 47.00£ 35.00€ 39.25 [Item has been sold]

Description: One from a famous set of eight designs by Harunobu: Zashiki Hakkei (Eight Domestic Scenes), which are all 'parodies' of a famous set of eight classical Chinese poems.

This one looks back to the poem in which a soft rain is falling in the evening, and the presumption here is that the sound of the steam and water softly bubbling in the kettle picks up the theme ...

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