Painting the Eyes on a Snow Rabbit, 雪兎図, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1780, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 23 3/4 in. × 16 in. (60.3 × 40.6 cm), Paintings, Isoda Koryūsai (Japanese, 1735–ca. 1790), During the Edo period, as a winter amusement, children often made snow sculptures and the two most popular types were the snow rabbit (yuki usagi) and the snow Daruma (yuki Daruma). This image transports a children’s outdoor pastime into an elegant interior setting where a woman, probably the boy’s mother, paints on the eyes of a snow rabbit he holds on a lacquer tray
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Painting, Eyes, Snow Rabbit, 雪兎図, Edo period, 1615–1868, ca, 1780, Japan, Hanging scroll, ink, color, silk, Image, 23 3/4, 16, 60.3, 40.6 cm, Paintings, Isoda Koryūsai, Japanese, 1735–ca., 1790, winter amusement, children, snow sculptures, two, popular types rabbit, yuki usagi Daruma, image transports, outdoor pastime, elegant interior, setting, woman, boy, mother, paints, eyes, holds, lacquer tray
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