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Flower Arranging
Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739-1820)
c. 1769
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 25 × 19.1 cm (9 7/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Two young girls are shown arranging flowers, likely preparing for an important guest. One places an arrangement including irises and pinks in a jar hanging on the pillar next to a scroll painting. The other is cutting the stem of a chrysanthemum to place in the jar before her.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
