Cleveland Museum of Art
Hanaōgi of Ōgiya from the series Picture Puzzles
Kitagawa Utamaro
- Date
- c. 1797
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In this tricky print, one must decode the small pictures in the rectangle at the upper left corner to learn the identity of the subject of the print: a woman whose name means "Flower Fan," her place of work called the "House of Fans," and what she is doing—emerging from a mosquito net.
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