# Flowers

**Suiseki Sato** (Japanese, 19th century)  
n.d.  
Color woodblock print, surimono  
19.3 × 51.5 cm (7 5/8 × 20 5/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.1184. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/41375).

## About this work

Suiseki Sato designed this (n.d.). It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of color woodblock print, surimono.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Surimono.** Privately commissioned Japanese prints, often New Year greetings, made in small runs on thick paper with metallic pigments and blind embossing, and usually paired with poems.
- **Colour woodblock print.** In Japan these were a team effort. The artist drew the design, a carver cut it into cherry-wood blocks, one block for each colour, and a printer brushed on the pigment and rubbed each sheet by hand. Full-colour prints of this kind were called nishiki-e, “brocade pictures”, from the 1760s on.

### [Suiseki Sato](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/suiseki-sato)

Japanese, 19th century

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Japan
- Real size: about 7½ × 20 in (19 × 51 cm). The 16 × 20 in print is close to life size.
- Subjects: flora, green (color), red (color), pink (color), flowers, Japanese (culture or style)
- Colour: olive
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/143.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/143/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/flowers-aic-41375).