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Hanaōgi of Ōgiya from the series Picture Puzzles

Kitagawa UtamaroLinkedCulture matchlcp-39e686abde8d

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
Object ID: 152542

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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Credit line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
Provenance: ?–1942: Henri Vever [1854–1942], France | March 26, 1974: (Sotheby & Co., London, England, March 26, 1974, part I, lot 201) | 1974–?: (R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) | ?–1985: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1985–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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