- Title:
- “Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya House”
- 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 S