- Title:
- The Garden of a Nursery Store in Sugamo
- Artist:
- Utagawa Yoshiiku
- Date:
- Late Edo Period (19th C.)
- Size:
- W:23.2cm x H:32.7cm
- Notes:
- Number:
- E-018
In the mid-18th Century, there were many nursery stores in the area currently known as Sugamo. Workers tended the gardens of feudal lords. The stores began to sell bonsai trees. This painting depicts pine and bamboo trees and chrysanthemum flowers inside bonsai pots displayed on the shelves of a nur
