Painting the Eyes on a Snow Rabbit. Metal Print

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Painting the Eyes on a Snow Rabbit. Artist: Isoda Koryusai (Japanese, 1735-ca. 1790). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 23 3/4 in. x 16 in. (60.3 x 40.6 cm)
Overall with mounting: 62 1/4 in. x 23 in. (158.1 x 58.4 cm)
Overall with knobs: 62 1/4 x 24 3/4 in. (158.1 x 62.9 cm). Date: ca. 1780.
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. The seated woman wears an obi decorated with chrysanthemum flowers, while the standing younger woman has a kimono with summer hydrangeas--a reminder that people often wore garments with unseasonal references to distract from frigid or humid weather. Instead of using berries to fashion the eyes of the snow rabbit, they ar...