1902
Beauty Gazing at the Moon
Ōno HōkeiJapanese, active 19th century
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Depictions of lovely, solitary women beneath blossoming trees, such as this scene of a woman under a flowering plum, have been popular in Asia for more than a thousand years. In China the plum blossom symbolizes elegant beauty and other virtues.
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