Basket with Fan, Chrysanthemums, and Mushrooms (early 1800s): Art, History and Details

Basket with Fan, Chrysanthemums, and Mushrooms (early 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A surimono is a privately commissioned print used to announce or commemorate a special event. Because the chrysanthemum is the premier symbol of autumn, this print may have been made to celebrate the changing of the seasons.

Object facts

• Title: Basket with Fan, Chrysanthemums, and Mushrooms
• Date: early 1800s
• Creator attribution: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Print
• Technique: color woodblock print
• Dimensions: Sheet: 19.1 x 52.8 cm (7 1/2 x 20 13/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1949.153

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Ralph King

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Part II: Annual Report Issue for the Year 1949.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 37, no. 6, 1950, pp. 127–161.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sŏn Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.

View the collection record

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