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Basket of Peonies
Hokusai1810 or 1814
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
A <em>surimono</em> is a privately commissioned print used to announce or commemorate a special event. This picture celebrates an event in the life of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII, whose emblem was the peony. According to Japanese tradition, the peony–one of the flowers of the four seasons–is the flower of summer.
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- Title: Basket of Peonies
- Creator: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849)
- Date Created: 1810 or 1814
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 52.1 x 38.3 cm (20 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.5
- Medium: color woodblock print; surimono
- Inscriptions: Signature: Katsushika Hokusai aratame Taito gasan Printer: Suriko Shinacho
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Ralph King
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1943.5
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