# Viewing the Moon, in Suzuki Harunobu

Suzuki Harunobu designed this in about 1767/68, aged about 37. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1767/68
- Medium: Color woodblock print; chuban
- Dimensions: 28 × 21.3 cm (11 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1928.910
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Suzuki Harunobu](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/suzuki-harunobu), Japanese, 1725–1770

Harunobu was the first great master of the full-colour woodblock picture, or nishiki-e, which developed in Edo around 1765 out of privately commissioned calendar designs.

14 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Suzuki Harunobu's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-suzuki-harunobu?hang=749) (8 works)
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