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The Evening Bell of the Clock (Tokei no bansho), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"

Suzuki Harunobu

Painted
c. 1766
Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban

From the same Eight Views of the Parlour: the temple "evening bell" becomes a clock in the room, with women seated beside a Western timepiece. It shows how rare and precious a clock was in eighteenth-century Japan. Grey room and pale robes keep it quiet.

Object record (Art Institute of Chicago) · CC0

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