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Women Making Clothing

Utagawa Toyokuni

Cleveland Museum of Art

Women Making Clothing by Utagawa Toyokuni: The image shows four women on a yellow tatami mat floor; one woman stands on the left, and three sit on the right. The standing woman wears a brown kimono with white flowers and a green and orange obi; her hair is pulled back with a brown and yellow hairpin. The woman on the left sitting on the floor wears an orange patterned kimono and a green obi; she looks down at a rectangular object in her lap. The woman on the right sitting in the back wears an orange kimono; she holds a long white scroll. The woman on the right sitting in the front wears a white kimono with green and orange circular designs; she looks down at a piece of fabric on her lap. The background shows a tiled floor leading outside to grassy hills and a bamboo fence; there are Japanese characters written in black ink on a beige background above the women. The floor has scattered fabric and cylindrical objects.

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603 × 900 px
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