Flirting Lovers

c. 1673/81

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Woodblock print; sumizuri-e, oban yoko-e
Dimensions: 27.1 × 38.4 cm (10 11/16 × 15 1/8 in.)
Collection no.: 1973.645.4
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Hishikawa Moronobu. Flirting Lovers, c. 1673/81. Inventory 1973.645.4. Hishikawa Moronobu; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/130213. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Individual creator identity review: existing authority Q746217 explicitly links Chicago artist 35839. Local biography years remain 1618 / 1694; native numeric years 1613 / 1694 and object display 'Hishikawa Moronobu\nJapanese, (?)-1694' remain separate evidence. No biography field or creator link is changed. Independent Getty ULAN 500118854 and Library of Congress n80040691 authorities corroborate this identity and cross-reference one another. LoC label: 'Hishikawa, Moronobu, approximately 1618-approximately 1694'. The question mark in the native lifespan marks uncertain birth, not an uncertain artist attribution. The exact object, accession, creation interval, native primary artist role and photo-specific CC0 grant are checked separately; catalogue fields and review status are preserved.

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

About this artwork

Flirting Lovers — Hishikawa Moronobu. c. 1673/81.

Medium: Woodblock print; sumizuri-e, oban yoko-e. Dimensions: 27.1 × 38.4 cm (10 11/16 × 15 1/8 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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