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- Introduction
- In popular culture Literature Comics Radio, animation, and television
- Notes
Snow, Moon and Flowers (雪月花, setsu-getsu-ka or setsu gekka), a topic in art and design borrowed from old China,[1] was quite popular in the late Edo period. IntroductionThis threefold theme (in Japan, flowers mean always cherry blossoms) is held together in several ways. Most obviously it refers to the seasons of the year:[2] snow = winter, moon = autumn and flowers = spring. But one could also think it as representations of three whites: blue-white = winter, yellow-white = autumn and pink-white = spring. Ukiyo-e artists liked to sell prints in series, sometimes even scrolls were painted to be hanged together. Artists liked to combine it with three women, three well known landscapes (moon always with reflecting water) etc. "Snow, moon and flowers" appear also as decoration on boxes, backside of traditional mirrors etc. | Katsukawa Shunshō (1726–1793) | Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828) |
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from left to right:
--- Sei Shōnagon (winter)
------- Murasaki Shikibu (autumn)
------------ Ono no Komachi (spring) | Snow Moon Flowers |
- Prints by Shiba Kōkan, signed as Suzuki Harushige (1747–1818)
- Prints by Hokusai Katsushika (1760–1849)
- Prints by Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)
- Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)
- Prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
In popular cultureLiterature- Nippon Daihyakka Zensho - Encyclopedia Nipponica 2001 (E-Book version). Shogakukan, Tokyo 1996.
- In the Unbreakable Machine-Doll light novel, the Setsugetsuka Trilogy is composed of three female automaton sisters; Irori, the eldest sister, representing the snow, Yaya, the second eldest sister, representing the moon, and Komurasaki, the youngest sister, representing the flower.
Comics- In the Unbreakable Machine-Doll manga, the Setsugetsuka Trilogy is composed of three female automaton sisters; Irori, the eldest sister, representing the snow, Yaya, the second eldest sister, representing the moon, and Komurasaki, the youngest sister, representing the flower.
Radio, animation, and television- In the Unbreakable Machine-Doll anime, the Setsugetsuka Trilogy is composed of three female automaton sisters; Irori, the eldest sister, representing the snow, Yaya, the second eldest sister, representing the moon, and Komurasaki, the youngest sister, representing the flower.
Notes1. ^E.g. Bai Juyi: "At the time of snow, moon and flowers, I think of you".
2. ^The short hot summer is skipped.
3. ^Hiroshige uses whirlpools to imitate flowers
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