Title: A Contest of Elegant Ladies among the Cherry Blossoms (Kaika kifujin kisoi)
Object type: Print
Date: September 1887
Culture: Japan
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Artist:  Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1838–1912
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 14 5/8 x 29 1/8 in. (37.1 x 74 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Women, term: Flowers, term: Trees