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Pleasures of the Four Seasons: Colors and Scents of Flowers, left (Shiki no asobi hana no iroka, ge), c. 1783. Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych.
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych · 38.1 × 25.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Pleasures of the Four Seasons: Colors and Scents of Flowers, left (Shiki no asobi hana no iroka, ge)
- Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 Japanese, c.1753-1806
- Date
- c. 1783
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych
- Dimensions
- 38.1 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Ukiyo-e c. 1600–1900
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.







