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Yayoi asukayama hanami
Yayoi asukayama hanami
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Buy wall art of this image titled: Yayoi asukayama hanami, from the Japanese Ukiyo-e and Yokohama-e Prints Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now!
- Women--Clothing & dress--Japan--1770-1780.
- Beauty--Japan--1770-1780.
- Tea parties--Japan--1770-1780.
- Cherry trees--Japan--1770-1780.
- Flowers--Japan--1770-1780.
- Caption label from exhibi "Sakura": Hanami: Blossom Viewing Party. Shigemasa's 18th-century hanami (flower viewing) party scene shows three women and a man at Asukayama Park, opened by Japanese Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684-1751) who had its famous cherry trees transplanted there in 1720. Comfortably arranged on a ground cover inside a partial enclosure, they are likely enjoying warmed saké. Such parties continue to be a thriving Japanese pastime, replete with traditional sake and picnic blankets laid out hours in advance at the best sakura viewing spots. Above the image is a haiku poem describing both arboreal and human "blossoms": Murekitaru / Hana mata hana no / Asuka-yama : All flocked together / Blossoms upon blossoms / Asuka Hill
- Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.
- From the series: Jūnikagetsu : Twelve months.
- Format: vertical Koban Nishikie.
- Attributed to: Kitao Shigemasa.
- Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
- Exhibited: "Sakura : Cherry Blossom as Living Symbol of Friendship" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012.
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