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A Lady-in-Waiting with Waist as Slender as a Willow from the series Flowers and Modern Beauties

Kikukawa Eizan

Cleveland Museum of Art

A woman in a pink kimono with green and orange trim and a black and gold patterned obi kneels on the right side. She wears a black updo with hair ornaments and looks down. A woman in a black and gold kimono sits on the floor on the left, looking up. A low table with a large bowl containing a small tree with orange flowers sits behind her. A beige background features a vertical rectangle with black Japanese text on the right and Japanese text and a signature on the left. A small square symbol sits at the bottom-left.

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610 × 900 px
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