id:			111624
accession number:	1930.176
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.176
updated:		2023-01-10 20:07:08.498000

Passing the Bamboo Grove, 1868–1912. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770). Color woodblock print; sheet: 34.7 x 21.3 cm (13 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.176

title:				Passing the Bamboo Grove
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			1868–1912
creation date earliest:		1868
creation date latest:		1912
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
technique:	color woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 34.7 x 21.3 cm (13 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signature: Harunobu ga
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1934-09-05T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 5-October 28, 1934).

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Yamanaka & Co.)
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fun fact:


digital description:
The young woman in this print likely stands in for Meng Zong, one of the Chinese Twenty Four Paragons of Filial Piety. Legend has it he went out in the dead of winter to dig bamboo shoots for his aged parents. Harunobu designed a calendar print for the year 1765 with a more explicit allusion to the theme. It shows a young woman actively digging for bamboo shoots. The first state of this print was privately issued as a calendar print for 1766, with the months of the year depicted in the woman's sash. It was illegal to sell any type of calendar without a government license, and a second state with the calendar replaced with a checked pattern was produced so that the print could be sold commercially. This print is several centimeters taller than the original, which together with its bright colors, indicates that it is a later reproduction.

wall description:
The first state of this print was privately issued as a calendar print for 1766, with the months of the year depicted in the woman's sash. It was illegal to sell any type of calendar without a government license, and this print is a later state with the calendar replaced with a checked pattern so that the print could be sold commercially.
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RELATED WORKS

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