Group of Women Under a Blossoming Cherry Tree

Two panels of a Japanese woodblock print. The left panel depicts two women outdoors. The woman on the left has dark hair, a pink kimono wrapped around the upper body with a black kimono with white flowers on the lower body. The woman on the right has a light-colored kimono with a green sash; she wears a hat and carries a bag slung over the right shoulder. They stand on grass next to a tree with hanging branches. The right panel depicts four women outdoors. The woman on the left sits on a low platform; she wears a hat and a long black kimono with floral patterns on the bottom half. The woman in front of her sits on the ground, with a box on a low table in front of her; she wears a hat and a kimono. The woman beside her sits on a low platform; she wears a hat and a kimono. The woman on the right sits on the ground; she wears a kimono. The woman on the right side stands behind the seated women; she wears a hat, a green and yellow striped kimono and holds an umbrella. The women are sitting and standing under a tree with hanging branches. The background is a mottled beige color.

Artwork details

Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: Diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 599 × 454 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

The Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Segawa Kikunojo III (left), Possibly as Misao Gozen, Matsuya Soshichi, and the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Insland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of te Seventh Month, 1785