Object Details
Artist
Katsukawa Shuncho
Date
1790
Medium
Woodblock print
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Libertson
Object
Number
2000.156.002
The New Year festival is the most important in the Japanese round of seasonal celebrations. Here Sh(…)
The New Year festival is the most important in the Japanese round of seasonal celebrations. Here Shuncho has taken us inside the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters to show an idealized New Year’s Day celebrated by five bijin (“beautiful women”). One courtesan brings a tray of New Year’s delicacies for the group to enjoy. Prominent is the inclusion of shochikuba, the Three Friends of the Cold Season: pine, bamboo and blossoming plum, auspicious symbols of the New Year.
