The Four Seasons

(Shiki no uchi, 四季之内)

Publisher: Nuno-Kichi

1843

In this series of prints of beautiful women in the four seasons is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Title: Spring (Haru, 春) Description: Woman reaching up to a cherry-blossom branch
	Title: Summer (Natsu, 夏) Description: Woman carrying a bucket and ladling water on to plants with dragonflies overhead
	Title: Autumn (Aki, 秋) Description: Beauty on a boat under a bridge
	I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state with a blue title cartouche.
	Title: Winter (Fuyu, 冬) Description: Beauty in the snow

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