Elegant Flower Viewing
Details
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Title
Elegant Flower Viewing
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Series
Elegant flower competition
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Artist/maker
Kikukawa Eizan (1787 - 1867) (designer) -
Associated people
Yamaguchiya Tōbei (active c. 1805 - 1895) (publisher) -
Associated place
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Date
early - mid-19th century -
Material and technique
nishiki-e (multi-block) woodblock print, printed with water-based vegetable pigments
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 55.6 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
print 34.3 x 23.5 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Mrs E. M. Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding from the Herbert H. Jennings Collection, 1952.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.4751
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Catalogue text
A beauty with rolled-up sleeves is holding a kaeshi (pocket paper) in her mouth while she adjusts her kanzashi. Her kimono is of a bamboo leaf design with an area of peony flowers with three contrasting colours. In the background, ominaeshi (maiden flower) and kikyō (Japanese bellflower) are in bloom, which are both ‘seven flowers for autumn’. Hana-awase, its title, is a competition for the most beautiful flowers and also for exchanging poems with the theme of flowers. Here it clearly suggests a competition between beautiful women.
Glossary of terms
nishiki-e
vegetable pigments
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