Pair Single Flowers
ca. 1860
19th Century
104.1 cm. x 40.8 cm. (41 in. x 16 1/8 in.)
Suzuki Kiitsu,
Japanese,
(1796–1858)
Object Type:
Scroll
Object Type2:
Scroll
Creation Place:
Asia, Japanese
Medium and Support:
Color on Silk Scroll
Accession Number:
254L.70.AC.X
When Admiral Perry came to Japan in iron ships without sails, many if not most Japanese felt as if the world had been passing them by. Japan was a closed society for 250 years and all of a sudden the populous seemed starved for things Western, They