Zashiki Hakkei information

Zashiki Hakkei (Japanese: 坐敷八景,^[a] "Eight Parlour Views") is a series of eight prints from 1766^[2] by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Suzuki Harunobu. They were the first full-colour nishiki-e prints and are considered representative examples of Harunobu's work. The prints are mitate-e parodies of popular themes of the 11th-century Chinese landscape painting series, Eight Views of Xiaoxiang; Harunobu replaces natural scenery with domestic scenes.

Harunobu made an erotic shunga version of the series in c. 1768–70 called Fūryū Zashiki Hakkei (風流座敷八景, "Eight Fashionable Parlour Views" or "Eight Modern Parlour Views"), each accompanied with a poem. He appropriated images and poetry for them from works by earlier artists, particularly those of the artist Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671–1750) and the poet Fukuo Kichijirō.

The Zashiki Hakkei theme became popular with artists such as Torii Kiyonaga, who produced two series based on Harunobu's Zashiki Hakkei in the late 1770s, and Isoda Koryūsai, who produced a Zashiki Hakkei series of his own.

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