Hanaōgi of Ōgiya from the series Picture Puzzles
c. 1797
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.6 × 25.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192820
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.
Provenance
Kelvin Smith, 1985.359
Registry history
- c. 1797 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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