Humorous Redition of Hanami Party
Utagawa Hirokage was a pupil of renowned painter and printmaker Andō Hiroshige. The latter’s popular and comparatively stately presentations of like subject matter provide a comic spark for this envisioning of flower-viewing at Asukayama. Strolling revelers in the middle distance include musicians and samurai who wear blue haori jackets with loose hakama trousers. In the immediate foreground, a party of women and men reacts as a blind man inadvertently wreaks havoc on their hanami (flower viewing) picnic.
Utagawa Hirokage was a pupil of renowned painter and printmaker Andō Hiroshige. The latter’s popular and comparatively stately presentations of like subject matter provide a comic spark for this envisioning of flower-viewing at Asukayama. Strolling revelers in the middle distance include musicians and samurai who wear blue <em>haori</em> jackets with loose <em>hakama</em> trousers. In the immediate foreground, a party of women and men reacts as a blind man inadvertently wreaks havoc on their <em>hanami</em> (flower viewing) picnic.