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Ladies Making Flower Arrangements


花を生ける美人
Utagawa Hisanobu (Hyakusai) (Japanese, active about 1801–1815)
Publisher: Maruya Bun'emon (Bunjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1806 (Bunka 3), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38.2 x 75.7 cm (15 1/16 x 29 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.202-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTriptych: 54.202 (left), 54.203 (center), 54.204 (right)
Signed Hisanobu ga (on each sheet)
久信画
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Tiger 5
改印:極、寅五
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)