Flower, by Utagawa Kunisada

An image of Flower. Kunisada, Utagawa (Japanese, 1786-1864). Colour print from woodblocks with metallic pigment and blind embossing (karazuri) and burnished black (tsuya-zuri). Shikishiban format surimono. circa 1823-1825. Notes: The 'Flower' print from a series entitled 'Flower and Bird, Wind and Moon' (Kachô-fugetsu). A geisha imagines that she sees the face of a lover in her mirror. His features resemble the Kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorô III, so this may be wishful thinking. On the window sill is a pot of sakura-sô (literally 'cherry grass') known in English as Siebold's primrose.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Flower. Kunisada, Utagawa (Japanese, 1786-1864). Colour print from woodblocks with metallic pigment and blind embossing (karazuri) and burnished black (tsuya-zuri). Shikishiban format surimono. circa 1823-1825. Notes: The 'Flower' print from a series entitled 'Flower and Bird, Wind and Moon' (Kachô-fugetsu). A geisha imagines that she sees the face of a lover in her mirror. His features resemble the Kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorô III, so this may be wishful thinking. On the window sill is a pot of sakura-sô (literally 'cherry grass') known in English as Siebold's primrose.

Image data

Accession Number: P.489-1937
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 897 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 954.57kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2013:08:16 12:10:28

Key words

19th Century burnished burnishing clothes clothing colour printing costume courtesan dressing table Edo Period embossed fashion female Fitz_PDP geigi geiko geisha hair hairstyle interior Japan Japanese kanzashi hairpin karazuri Katsura no tsuya-zuri kimono ledge mirrors obi print reflected reflection sash Shikishiban surimono tsuya-zuri tsuyazuri ukiyo-e Utagawa Kunisada window woman woodblock woodcut

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2026)
            "Flower, by Utagawa Kunisada"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-218594 Accessed: 2026-01-04 19:11:15

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-218594
            |title=Flower, by Utagawa Kunisada
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2026-01-04 19:11:15|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-218594

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/p_489_1937_1_201308_mfj22_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Flower"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Flower, by Utagawa Kunisada</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>