A Beauty Reciting Flowers

Data

A Beauty Reciting Flowers
Print   (Part of the set: Group of kuchi-e prints)

Kajita Hanko
Hakubunkan
1903

00038-026
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

A young woman reads out flower names from a silver coloured shikishi board in this print by Kajita Hanko. The brush next to her suggests that she is also practicing shodō calligraphy - perhaps she is copying down the characters for different flowers, then reading them out. Her sleeve "hangs out" of the yellow circle framing her, as does a branch bearing plum blossoms, suggesting that the circle is in fact a window.

This kuchi-e is from volume 9, issue 3, of Bungei Kurabu, published in Meiji 36 (1903).

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