April;Flwer Viewing Boat
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- japancoll
$300–$3,000. Common folk art prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Mori's cheerful folk art prints are affordably priced. His stencil technique (kappazuri) is distinctive.
April — Flower Viewing Boat (hanami-bune) depicts the pleasure boats that carried parties of revelers along the rivers and canals under the cherry blossoms, one of the most festive and socially important activities of the Japanese spring. The flower-viewing boat, with its passengers in their best spring clothing, musicians, food and sake, and the falling petals of the [sakura](/glossary/sakura) overhead, provided Mori with a subject of considerable compositional richness. The scene belonged to the tradition of seasonal genre subjects in Japanese print art, updated through his own lively folk-art sensibility.
Woodblock print
Hansen, yoru
1926
Color woodblock print
1915
Color woodblock print
Hansen, asa
1926
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
April;Flwer Viewing Boat was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利).
April;Flwer Viewing Boat depicts boats & ships and seascapes.
