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Mother Lifting a Child to a Plum Tree (from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven Year Old Girls of Recent Times)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Cleveland Museum of Art

A woman wearing a black hairpiece with decorative sticks and a traditional kimono with blue and white leaf patterns lifts a baby up to a plum tree branch with white flowers. The woman is looking up at the baby. The baby has a pink kimono and is looking at the plum blossoms. A second woman in a pink kimono with a green obi kneels down to the right. She has her back to the viewer and looks down at the ground. There is Japanese text on the left and top right of the image. The background is a plain beige color.

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