Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons

Kitagawa Utamaro • 1782

Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons, 1782

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The title of this print suggests a series of four, but only this wintry print is known. A boy has dropped his toy wrestlers as he is hoisted up to a woman who has been enjoying a book at the heated table. Her companion buries her head beneath the blanket to stay warm, her bare feet exposed by a girl tending the hot coals in the pit in the floor.