Utamaro

“The Courtesan Hanazuma Reading a Letter,” from the series Beauties Compared to Flowers (Bijin hana awase)

1790s

Dating

Within this decade

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

H. 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm); W. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)

Collection no.

JP2813

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Utamaro. “The Courtesan Hanazuma Reading a Letter,” from the series Beauties Compared to Flowers (Bijin hana awase). Utamaro; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.