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Maker(s):Suzuki Harunobu
Culture:Japanese (1724 - 1770)
Title:The Tenth Month, from series Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons (Fûryû Shiki Kosen)
Date Made:late 1760''s
Type:Print
Materials:woodcut printed in color on paper
Place Made:Japan
Measurements:sheet: 11 x 8 1/4 in.; 27.94 x 20.955 cm
Narrative Inscription:  English translation of poem, "It must be the godless month, when mortals are forbidden to lie, the autumn rains have started in the mountains."
Accession Number:  SC 1968.220
Credit Line:The Margaret Rankin Barker - Isaac Ogden Rankin Collection. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Barker (Margaret Clark Rankin, class of 1908)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
young man seated reading a letter sits by a small brazier outside it is raining and there is a bucket with maples branches on the veranda, a girl stands by a Fusuma (sliding door) and looks at the young man; poem at top of print

Label Text:
The translation for this print is "The world does not lie: by the coming of a shower we know the tenth month".

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