Art: Evening Snow on the Heater
This piece of artwork is a Japanese print by Suzuki Haronobu from the 18th Century. It is one of a set of "Eight Views of a Sitting Room," which echoed teh famous landscapes "Eight Views of Omi" and Eight Views of Xiaoxiang." This image parodies their classic view of snow in evening by showing a woman preparing wadding from white silk floss by placing it on a heater.
A haiku is a very specific type of Japanese poetry. A haiku represents the yin and yang of an idea. The middle line is the juxtaposition. A haiku contains a symbolic or descriptive word that gives an implication of the season.
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