# Beauties Harvesting Bracken, from the series Gekkō’s Miscellaney

- By: Ōgata Gekkō (Japanese, 1859–1920)
- Date: c. 1886–1899
- Medium: Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Classification: Print
- Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Credit line: Gift of the Norman W. Zaworski Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.69)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.69/2017.69_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The print series Gekkō’s Miscellaney wanders through a variety of genres. This print captures an agricultural scene of women gathering bracken. Ōgata Gekkō distinguished himself as a younger artist in the first exhibition of the Painting Appreciation Society (Kangakai) in 1885. He went on to earn prizes at world’s fairs and expositions in both the US and Europe.