「花模様 天明ノ頃」

The second Hana Moyō print depicting the Tenmei era (1781–1789) provides a companion image to kobayashi-kiyochika--78, together elaborating the costume conventions of this aesthetically significant period. The two prints may represent contrasting types within the same era—perhaps distinguishing between the fashions of the licensed quarters and those of merchant-class women, or between seasonal dress variants. Tenmei-period textiles are distinguished by their mastery of yūzen paste-resist dyeing and the nuanced color gradation it permitted, and Kiyochika's printmaking technique, with its careful registration of multiple color blocks on [washi](/glossary/washi), translates these textile complexities into the woodblock medium. Taken together with the other Hana Moyō prints, these two Tenmei images position the late eighteenth century as a sustained moment of costume refinement in the series' arc across Edo-period fashion history.