Fresh Spring Flowers

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Kano Gyokuen

  • Edo to Meiji period, 19th century
  • color on silk
  • hanging scroll

Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings

This is one of the “hanakago-zu”(literally “picture of flowers in a basket”), depicting various flowers in a basket or other vases. Blue and white wisterias are arranged in a bronze vase in the foreground, and peonies, Japanese globeflowers, and cherry blossoms, are arranged in a bamboo basket in the background. Other than these flowers arranged in vessels to be admired, spring grasses that seem as if they were just plucked, such as dandelions, violets, field horsetails, and horsetails are placed next to the vase. The warm and soft air of spring fills the painting with its bright colors and gentle painting style.(「Flowers of Felicitations」2019)

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Title/Name Fresh Spring Flowers
Other Title/
Name
Artist/
Creator
Kano Gyokuen
Period/Era Edo period Meiji period
Century 19c.
Quantity hanging scroll
Dimensions
Material/
Technique
color on silk
Signature/
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Accessories/
Contents
Country/
Origin
Excavation
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Place
Tokyo
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK002234
Category PaintingsJapanese / Asian Paintings
Cultural
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2026/05/19

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Fresh Spring Flowers

Fresh Spring Flowers

This is one of the “hanakago-zu”(literally “picture of flowers in a basket”), depicting various flowers in a basket or other vases. Blue and white wisterias are arranged in a bronze vase in the foreground, and peonies, Japanese globeflowers, and cherry blossoms, are arranged in a bamboo basket in the background. Other than these flowers arranged in vessels to be admired, spring grasses that seem as if they were just plucked, such as dandelions, violets, field horsetails, and horsetails are placed next to the vase. The warm and soft air of spring fills the painting with its bright colors and gentle painting style.(「Flowers of Felicitations」2019)