Print & drawing
Basket of Peonies
Katsushika Hokusai
1810 or 1814
From the archive
A surimono is a privately commissioned print used to announce or commemorate a special event. This picture celebrates an event in the life of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII, whose emblem was the peony. According to Japanese tradition, the peony–one of the flowers of the four seasons–is the flower of summer.
- Associated place
- Japan
- Material & technique
- color woodblock print; surimono
The record behind the work
Place & date
The museum gives the cultural attribution “Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)”. The pin represents this broad cultural association, not a verified creation site or depicted location.
The archive gives an approximate date or a range of years. The timeline uses that same range.
Source & reuse
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
Source ID: 123249
CC0 — image and metadata released under the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access program. Published from the United States.
