- Title:
- Yukun Nanakomachi Ogiya Hanaogi Yoshino Tatsuta (“Courtesan Hanaogi and the Young Courtesans Yoshino and Tatsuta of the Ogiya House” from the “Seven Courtesans” Series)
- Artist:
- Kitawaga Utamaro
- Date:
- Late Edo Period(19th C.)
- Size:
- Notes:
- Number:
- E-140
This painting portrays the top courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya brothel which was located at Itchome of Edocho in Yoshiwara. There is a beautiful cherry tree in bloom inside a round flowerpot with a dragon pattern painted on it. On the top half of the painting there is a poem from the Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) Series: “Hana no iro ha utsurinikerina itazurani wagami yonifuru nagame seshimani.” (The color of the cherry blossoms has faded, and I have wasted my time doing nothing while watching the rain fall.) The poem expresses the feeling of elderly women.