Evening Snow at Uchikawa (Uchikawa no bosetsu), from the series Fashio

A woman in a striped green kimono holds a red-and-cream parasol over a companion in a pale patterned robe, who bends low at a snowy garden fence. Pine branches with snow and a poem in cursive ink fill the upper right of the composition, set in soft, muted color.

Look closer: The artist's signature and seal sit in the lower right corner beside the stooping figure.

Artist

Isoda Koryūsai

Date

ca. 1768

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1378 × 1896 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918