This Japanese woodblock print is a triptych, which means that it is made of three separate sheets. Created by Utagawa Hiroshige it shows elegant sightseers admiring the flowers at the Horikiri Iris Garden. What’s going on here? The area around Horikiri village was renowned for hanashobu, a type of iris which was ideally suited to… Continue reading Iris Garden at Horikiri, 1852