Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Suzuki Harunobu—Evening Snow on the Heater

Suzuki Harunobu—Evening Snow on the Heater

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Original – Evening Snow on the Heater, a mid-18th century ukiyo-e print by Japanese artist Suzuki Harunobu (1725–70), displays Harunobu's mastery of the then-new polychromatic nishiki-e (or "brocade") print, as well as luxurious techniques such as extensive embossing

Reason

A beuatifully scanned image of a print by Suzuki Harunobu, one of the great ukiyo-e masters. The print is so well scanned that the extensive embossing can be clearly seen.

Articles in which this image appears

Ukiyo-e, Suzuki Harunobu

FP category for this image

East Asian art

Creator

Suzuki Harunobu

• Support as nominator --Curly Turkey (gobble) 23:52, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Wouldn't this have EV in nishiki-e as well? We haven't had any featured ukiyo-e in a while, and the last Japanese woodcut that was promoted (AFAIK) is certainly not MP friendly (NSFW). Glad to see another one nominated. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:10, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Idunno—he looks awful friendly to me! It could probably go in "nishiki-e", but then there'd be three out of four images there by Harunobu. I may get around to expanding the article someday, though. Curly Turkey (gobble) 00:27, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
    • One suspects we settled way too easily on the Dream of the Fishermen's wife scan. It's very low quality. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:55, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Very high quality. Has it really been that long, though? The LoC has lots. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:52, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

• Apparently my memory was faulty: this was the most recent, in Nov 2013 (that's still an almost 2 year gap between Dream and the next promotion). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:34, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
• LoC is like a bottomless pit of extraordinarily high-res scans—I've uploaded a boatload of them to Commons (mostly Sharaku). The Met's scans are lower-res, but I haven't seen anything at LoC that's as beautifully scanned as this one (the Met's got a bunch more like these—one of these days I'll find the time to upload more). Curly Turkey (gobble) 10:48, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

• Support High EV and obnoxiously high quality scan. Easy support. Sven Manguard Wha? 19:19, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support per others. Jee 16:20, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Suzuki Harunobu - Evening Snow on the Heater.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:52, 28 March 2014 (UTC)