This video explores an 18th-century Japanese woodblock print by Suzuki Harunobu featuring a contemporary beauty in the city of Edo (Tokyo), flirting with a young samurai. This print, titled Osen Waiting on a Young Samurai, is an example of the bijinga genre in ukiyo-e, or prints and paintings of the floating world produced during the Edo period in Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries. Learn what a bijinga is and more about Harunobu’s distinctive style.

Speaker: Dr. Cortney Chaffin Kim