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Hanaōgi of Ōgiya from the series Picture Puzzles
Utamaroc. 1797
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
In this tricky print, one must decode the small pictures in the rectangle at the upper left corner to learn the identity of the subject of the print: a woman whose name means "Flower Fan," her place of work called the "House of Fans," and what she is doing—emerging from a mosquito net.
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- Title: Hanaōgi of Ōgiya from the series Picture Puzzles
- Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
- Date Created: c. 1797
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 37.6 x 25.4 cm (14 13/16 x 10 in.)
- Provenance: Henri Vever [1854–1942], France, (Sotheby & Co., London, UK, March 26, 1974, part I, lot 201), (R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith), The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.359
- Medium: Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Inscriptions: Signature: Utamaro hitsu. Publisher: Matsumuraya Yahei (emblem)., Collector's Seal: Vever
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1985.359
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