鈴木春信画 若水を汲む男女, Drawing the First Water of the New Year, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1769–70, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (28.6 x 21.6 cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770), Symbols of spring abound in this poem. A young couple draws the “first water of the New Year” (wakamizu) in decorated buckets; pine saplings sit by the doorway, and plum blossoms burst into bloom. The scene also calls to mind an episode from the tenth-century Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) known as the “Well curb,” in which young lovers recall measuring their heights by the well as children
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鈴木春信画 若水を汲む男女, Drawing, First Water, New Year, Edo period, 1615–1868, ca, 1769–70, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print, ink, color, paper, 11 1/4 x 8 1/2, 28.6 21.6 cm, Prints, Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1725–1770, Symbols, spring abound, poem, young couple draws, first water, wakamizu, decorated buckets, pine saplings, sit, doorway, plum blossoms, burst, bloom, scene, calls, mind, episode, tenth-century Tales, Ise, Ise monogatari, Well curb lovers, recall, measuring, heights, well, children
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