Fumi yomu onna to nozoku wakashū – Historic Reproduction
![Fumi yomu onna to nozoku wakashū, [between 1773 and 1775] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d0/d058659d3531-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Fumi yomu onna to nozoku wakashū. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fumi yomu onna to nozoku wakashū
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In this print, a young man peeks at a woman as she reads a letter, a scene of private courtship set inside an ordinary room. Its narrow, upright shape, about 68 by 12 centimeters, marks it as a hashirae, or pillar print, meant to be hung on a vertical wooden post in a home or teahouse. Made in Edo around 1773 to 1775, when color woodblock prints were flourishing, it shows how urban printmakers turned everyday moments of reading, letter writing, and romance into popular images. The subject of love letters makes it a useful glimpse of how such exchanges were imagined in the period.
| Created / published | [between 1773 and 1775] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 68.2 x 11.9 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae Urushie (pillar print). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 59, p. 117. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Domestic life--Japan--1770-1780. Reading--Japan--1770-1780. Love letters--Japan--1770-1780. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,684 × 4,565 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221961 |
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