Love at the Brothel Gate
late 1760s
Suzuki Harunobu
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770)
Japanese Art
Love at the Brothel Gate, late 1760s. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770). Color woodblock print; sheet: 29 x 21.7 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1921.349
- Maker/Artist
- Suzuki Harunobu
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 29 x 21.7 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Siganture: Harunobu ga Translation: Although I yearn,/ I do not speak as days and months,/ pass by behind my cedar gate./ How can I endure keeping this secret within? Remark: The poem in the cloud above the figures comes from New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (新古今和歌集).
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1921.349
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Exhibitions
- Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235, <em>Japanese Woodblock Prints: Themes and Techniques</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art Education Department, Cleveland, OH (1980).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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