Warming the Sake by Maple Leaf Fire

Warming the Sake by Maple Leaf Fire by Suzuki Harunobu. The image shows two women. The woman on the left sits on the ground with her knees bent to her chest. She wears a pink kimono with blue floral designs and an open blue shawl with white wave designs. The seated woman holds a long-handled ladle and has a basket and pot beside her. The woman on the right leans over a brown railing with chevron designs, looking down at the seated woman. The standing woman wears a gray kimono with pink and orange designs. Behind them, a tree with pink blossoms is on the left and the ground is green.

Artwork details

Medium:: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 479 × 625 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Minamoto no Yoritomo in a dance interlude in scene two of the Joruri "Courtesan's Rouge on a Snow White Face (Oyama Beni Yuki no Sugao)" from the play "Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums (Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata)," performed at the Ichimura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1770

The Actors Arashi Sangoro II as Hojo Tokiyori (right), and Otani Hiroji III as Koga Saburo (left), in the Play Kono Hana Yotsugi no Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

The Ninth Month (Kikuzuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"

The Third Month (Yayoi), from the series "Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen)"

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ukita Sakingo and Sawamura Sojuro III as the ghost of the courtesan Takao, in the play "Ominaeshi Sugata no Hatsuaki," performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1788

Girl Leaping from Kiyomizu Temple

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo I in his rice cracker shop

Parody of Minamoto no Tametomo

The Marsh Where the Snipe Takes Flight (Shigi tatsu sawa), from the series "Three Evening Poems (Sanseki no uchi)"

Scene from a Drama

Two Young Women on a Verandah

Scene from a Noh Play

Lovers Dressing Beside a Window

Act IX (Dai kudanme): Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III as Ōboshi Rikiya and Bandō Kamezō I as Kakogawa Honzō, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Akaboshi Taro (right), and Azuma Tozo II as Shirotae (left), in the Play Kono Hana Yotsugi no Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I and Utagawa Shirogoro

Kabuki Actors Sawamura Sōjūrō III and Sanogawa Ichimatsu III in "A Courtesan’s Mirror for the Eastern Provinces" (Keisei Azuma kagami)

The Actor Nakamura Matsue I as Tsuchiya Umegawa Disguised as the Female Sumo Wrestler Oyodo (?) in the Play Naniwa no Onna-zumo (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Sixth Month, 1770 (?)