Aki, 風俗四季歌仙 立秋, First Day of Autumn (Risshu), Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1865, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Image: 11 × 8 in. (27.9 × 20.3 cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770), In old Japan, autumn comprised the seventh, eighth, and ninth months of the lunar calendar. The print shows a woman in the blue-and-white striped 'yukata' and a girl looking through the open 'shoji' at the right, where bamboo and poem-slip decorations for the Tanabata Festival (seventh day of the seventh month) are seen above the housetops
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Aki, 風俗四季歌仙 立秋, First Day, Autumn, Risshu, Edo period, 1615–1868, ca, 1865, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print, ink, color, paper, Image, 11, 8, 27.9, 20.3 cm, Prints, Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1725–1770, old, autumn comprised, seventh, eighth, ninth months, lunar calendar, print, woman, blue, white striped, yukata, girl looking, open, shoji, right, bamboo, poem-slip decorations, Tanabata Festival, seventh day month, housetops
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