Women on the Veranda Looking at a Girl Picking Flower
- Date:
- about 1790s
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; long surimono
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Women on a veranda watch from a comfortable distance while a girl below reaches for flowering plants — gathering blossoms or herbs in a domestic garden — in this long surimono from the 1790s. The elevated observers and the active young figure below create a layered composition of quiet attention, the watching women's stillness contrasting with the girl's reaching motion in a characteristic Hokusai study of gendered gesture.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Women on the Veranda Looking at a Girl Picking Flower was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) in about 1790s.
Women on the Veranda Looking at a Girl Picking Flower depicts birds & flowers, children, and daily life.