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"description": "A girl steps onto a veranda after a bath to look at a pot of pinks. A warm breeze stirs the poem-strip tied to the windbell above her. Irises bloom in the pool in the background. The print has been identified as the summer subject in a set of four flowers representing each season and is considered to be one of Harunobu\u2019s most enchanting designs. One of the most celebrated and productive of all ukiyo-e artists, Harunobu is widely recognized as the first Japanese printmaker to create designs by printing each color in the image with a different block. These prints came to be known as nishiki-e, or brocade pictures, suggesting their resemblance to the gorgeous brocades worn at the time. The embossing on the waves in the stream and on the flowers was created by using unpigmented blocks during the printing process.",
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"citation": "Vignier, Charles, H. Inada, and Raymond Koechlin. Harunobu, Koriusai\u0308, Shunsho: estampes japonaises tire\u0301es des collections de mm. Bing, Bouasse-Lebel, Bullier [etc.] ... et expose\u0301es au Muse\u0301e des arts de\u0301coratifs en janvier 1910. Paris: Ateliers photo-me\u0301caniques D.A. Longuet, 1910.",
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"citation": "Hillier, Jack Ronald. Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976.",
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"citation": "\u201cChecklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 292\u2013295.",
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