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Couple Sharing an Umbrella Under the Snow by Isoda Koryūsai — Japanese Color woodblock print; hashira-e, c. 1771

Couple Sharing an Umbrella Under the Snow

by Isoda Koryūsai

Date:
c. 1771
Medium:
Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Description

A man in a black robe and a woman in a white robe with a striped orange-and-brown obi stand close together beneath a shared orange umbrella, its ribs radiating above their heads; snow-laden willow branches droop across the top of the composition. Both figures wear pale wooden geta, and the woman's under-robe shows a red-and-white striped hem peeking out at her feet. This tall, narrow hashira-e print, a color woodblock print by Isoda Koryūsai from 1766, is dominated by whites, black, and warm orange against a plain pale ground.

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Couple Sharing an Umbrella Under the Snow was created by Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) in c. 1771.

Couple Sharing an Umbrella Under the Snow depicts winter.