![Pilgrimage to a shrine during plum blossom viewing time [<i>baika-mōde</i> - 梅花詣で]](https://woodblockprints.org/media/lyon_collection/images/8/91750_ca_object_representations_media_843_large.jpg)
Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)
Pilgrimage to a shrine during plum blossom viewing time [baika-mōde - 梅花詣で]
1844 – 1845
28.5 in x 14 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock prints
Signed: Kunisada aratame nidai Toyokuni ga
Kunisada name-changed to Toyokuni II (国貞改二代豊国)
Publisher: Minoya Chūsuke
(Marks 333 - seal 25-492)
Nanushi censor's seal: Tanaka - for either 5/1844 or 2/1845
Waseda University - right panel
Waseda University - center panel
Waseda University - left panel
British Museum - Hiroshige II fan print based on a similar theme
Van Gogh Museum - right-hand panel only
National Museums of Scotland - right-hand panel
National Museums of Scotland - center panel
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna - left panel The woman on the left is holding a 'stalk' of bamboo with a faux bird attached by threads. The woman in the middle panel is leaning down to pick up one of these birds which has become detached. We mention this because of a link to a Hiroshige II fan print in the British Museum which we have added above. Click on it to learn more.
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Illustrated in black and white in the Catalogue of the Van Gogh Museum's Collection of Japanese Prints by Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Willem van Gulik and Keiko van Bremen-Ito, 1991, #181, p. 155.
beautiful woman picture (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
Minoya Chūsuke (美濃屋忠助) (publisher)