Artworks

Morning Haze at Asakusa (Eight Sophisticated Views of Edo)

Artwork · Suzuki Harunobu · c. 1769 · Japanese woodblock print · Tokyo National Museum

Ofuji, the “ginkgo girl” of the toothpick shop behind the Asakusa Kannon and one of the two great beauties of Edo, flirts with a young samurai — slender, graceful, innocent and untouched by life like all Suzuki Harunobu’s women; ginkgo leaves at her feet and a willow, emblem of the pleasure quarter, behind her. 1 Mason 2005, p. 284, fig. 322. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.