Color woodblock print of a woman with an umbrella on a street, a man peering through a wooden lattice above her, with a poem panel at top.

Evening Snow of a Thousand Love-Letters, Ohatsu and Tokubei

A woman in a long pale robe and dark hood, holding a folding fan and a small flower, stands on a street before a latticed wooden building. Above, a man peers through the lattice toward her, and an open umbrella and a calligraphic poem frame the scene in a color woodblock print.

Artist: Ippitsusai Buncho
Date: c. 1772
Medium: Color woodblock print; chuban
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2291 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1777).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection

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Evening Snow of a Thousand Love-Letters, Ohatsu and Tokubei

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