Two Young Girls Pausing to Admire the View by a Torii c. 1765 - 1770

Editor: This is "Two Young Girls Pausing to Admire the View by a Torii" by Suzuki Harunobu. I’m really drawn to the calmness of this print. What do you see in this piece? Curator: Calm is a great word. I see a world painted with such gentle curiosity, a scene where stopping to smell the cherry blossoms is the most important thing in the world. It's the quiet moments, isn't it, that whisper the loudest? What whispers to you? Editor: The way Harunobu captures an everyday moment and turns it into something so…poetic. Curator: Exactly! Perhaps art is just about framing those in-between moments. Editor: I'll never look at a woodblock print the same way again!