Princess Nobuko of ASAKA
The initials “N.A.” on the work indicates that it was painted after Princess Nobuko’s marriage into the Asaka family. Princess Nobuko had practiced painting since childhood, but after she traveled to Europe to care for Prince Yasuhiko as he recovered from a car accident, records contained in the bound receipts detailing their European expenses show that she received watercolor lessons from the sculptor Ivan-Léon Blanchot. This work is presumed to have been created around that time due to the similarity of the signature with that on Anemones, which is dated 1924, when the princess was in Europe.
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