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Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a staff, with calligraphy and loquat blossoms behind him.

Secret song of the biwa (loquat) blossom: Matsunami Kengyo as Akushichi Byoe

Utagawa Kunisada II, 1863

Woodblock print of a man in a patterned kimono beside a bamboo screen of flowers, with a mountain landscape behind.

Ichimura Takenojo IV as a flower vendor

Nishimura Shigenobu, 1726

Woodblock print of two women in kimono on a wooden veranda with a railing, blossoming branches below.

Viewing cherry blossoms

Torii Kiyonaga, 1785

Woodblock print of women in kimono and a man with a sword under cherry blossoms, with a temple in the background.

Cherry blossom viewing at Ueno

Katsukawa Shunzan, 1781

Hand-colored Japanese print of people on a veranda viewing cherry blossoms, with a pond, pagoda and hillside path.

Viewing cherry blossoms from the bank of a pond at Ueno

Nishimura Shigenaga, 1725

Woodblock print of three women in kimono among blossoming cherry trees beside a garden stream and veranda.

Viewing cherry blossoms in the garden

Chobunsai Eishi, 1788

Woodblock print of women in kimono viewing pink cherry blossoms near a temple and pagoda on a green hillside.

Viewing cherry blossoms at Ueno

Katsukawa Shunzan, 1781

Woodblock print of women and a man picnicking under cherry blossoms, with a tea kettle, food boxes and a umbrella.

Third Lunar Month, Blossom Viewing at Asuka Hill

Kitao Shigemasa, 1772

Woodblock print of cherry blossom trees on a grassy slope with picnickers, and sailing boats on water at sunset.

Blossoms at Gotenyama

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1835

Woodblock print of a woman playing shamisen in patterned kimono, with a framed panel of rape blossoms and a butterfly.

Butterfly on rape blossoms [nanohana]

Utagawa Kunisada, 1831

Two-sheet Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono in an interior with cherry blossoms, a floral screen and a child.

Flower performance

Toyohara Kunichika, 1862

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a courtesan with a parasol and attendants beneath flowering cherry branches.

Courtesan beneath cherry blossoms

Katsukawa Shuncho, 1785

Vertical Japanese print of two women in kimono beneath blossoming plum branches, with calligraphy in the upper left.

Courtesans beneath plum blossoms

Torii Kiyonaga, 1781

Japanese woodblock print of a flower vendor carrying blossoming branches and chrysanthemums on a pole, with wooden plant stan

Flower vendor

Nishimura Shigenaga, 1725

Woodblock print of a seated young boy holding a flowering branch and a hanging fruit ornament, in a butterfly-patterned robe.

Male child with pleach blossom sprig

Ishikawa Toyomasa, 1772

Poster with a large blue stylized flower above green leaves advertising the Du Page County Centennial Flower Show in Hinsdale

Du Page County centennial flower show

Charles Raymond Long, 1936