Suzuki Harunobu – Night Rain of the Tea Stand (Daisu no yau), c. 1766 | Giclée Print
30 × 40 cm / 11.8 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1
CHF 49.00
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Suzuki Harunobu – Night Rain of the Tea Stand (Daisu no yau), c. 1766 | Giclée Print
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Water is poured for tea, and the sound of it standing in for weather. In the Chinese canon this view is Night Rain on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers: the rain has become the water at the tea stand, heard rather than seen.
The series turns the old landscape cycle into eight objects in a living room — a parody, a mitate, which only works if you know the landscape it replaces. These are also among the first full-colour woodblock prints ever made, the nishiki-e Harunobu forced through from 1765.
What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. It is not a woodblock print and is not sold as one — a woodblock print is pulled by hand from cut cherry blocks, and the good impressions are in museums.
Scale
Original: 28.7 × 21.6 cm / 11 1/4 × 8 1/2 in — chūban, Art Institute of Chicago
30 × 40 cm / 11.8 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1
50 × 70 cm / 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.7× original
Provenance
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770), Night Rain of the Tea Stand (Daisu no yau), from the series Eight Views of the Parlour (Zashiki hakkei), c. 1766; colour woodblock print, chūban, 28.7 × 21.6 cm.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection, Acc. No. 1928.897.
Public domain; the museum publishes its digitisation under CC0.
The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.
