Suzuki Harunobu创作的日本版画《Courtesan Standing Beside a Pot of Pinks》
艺术家：Suzuki Harunobu
标题：Courtesan Standing Beside a Pot of Pinks
日期：about 1768–1769
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来源：Worcester Art Museum
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描述：
Standing figure of a young woman who is placing a long hairpin in her coiffure, and is looking down at a pot of pinks which stands upon the floor at her feet. Summer Kimono (title: eternal summer, name of a pink.) Formerly titled "Pinks (Everlasting Summer) (Tokomatsu)". Harunobu's characteristically youthful, graceful women were particularly suited to inhabit the narrow shape of the pillar print. In this work a courtesan, returning from her bath, adds a pin to her hairdo already fashioned with tortoise-shell combs. The bare-footed young woman is clad in a thin, suggestive red under-robe and a sheer summer kimono and holds a round fan (uchiwa) with an iris design. She looks at the potted flowers nadeshiko, or pinks, blooming in a jardinière, perhaps thinking that the hot days are soon coming to an end. Pinks, which start to bloom in late
