Climbing retailer the Temple Steps, Acrylic on masonite, after Japanese Woodcut

An acrylic painting on masonite retailer board after Climbing the Temple Steps a woodcut print by Harunobu c. 1765

Size: 15" w x 20" h


Depicting: A one-hundred-times worship. A woman walking back and forth a hundred times before a temple (or a shrine), offer a prayer each time. Her hair is wound round a comb in a fashionable hairstyle. In her left hand she holds twisted-paper strings to help her count how many prayers she has offered.

Pan-tone color approximates:

Red in Kimono: 730 U
Whites: 7500 U
Lite Step: 466 U
Dark Step: 7560 U
Tree Yellow: 7551U
Bark: 1615 U

Matte finish and lightly distressed (i.e. sandpapered)