Fashionable Choice of Six Flowers

(Furyû rok’ kwa sen, 風流六花撰)

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

c. 1843

 

This series shows beautiful women with flowers.  It is listed as number 101 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).  The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.  I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for assisting with this section.

 

 

Flowers: Chrysanthemums

Description: Beauty holding a cloth

 

 

Kuniyoshi - Fashionable Choices of 6 Flowers, R101, 1843

 

Flowers: Plum blossoms

Description: Beauty crouching

 

Flowers: Cherry blossoms

Description: Beauty holding a water pot

 

 

Another state of the above design without any green

 

Flowers: Lilies

Description: Beauty with cats

 

Another state of the above design

Kuniyoshi - Fashionable Choices of 6 Flowers, R101, K662-001-003

 

Flowers: Peony

Description:

 

Flowers: Pheasant’s eye

Description: Standing beauty

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