# Giving a Light by the Garyubai Plum Tree, in The Floating World

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

Our note:

> The Garyūbai, or Sleeping Dragon Plum, was a celebrated old tree at the Umeyashiki plum garden in Kameido, east of Edo, whose branches snaked along the ground and took root again.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1767/68
- Medium: Color woodblock print; chuban
- Dimensions: 28 × 20.4 cm (11 × 8 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.2089
- 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

- [More by Suzuki Harunobu](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/suzuki-harunobu?hang=750) (14 works)
- [More prints of the 18th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/print-18?hang=750) (129 works)
- [18th-century Japan](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-japan?hang=750) (92 works)

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