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The Hour of the Snake (from the series A Clock for Young Women)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Japanese woodblock print of two women. The woman on the right is standing; she has a bun on top of her head with a stick tucked into it; she wears a rust-colored robe with pink and green under robe; she holds a black handheld mirror in her right hand. The woman on the left sits; she wears her hair in a low bun; she wears peach-colored robe; she looks up at the standing woman. The background is yellow. A scroll with Japanese writing appears on the upper left.

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Dimensions:
582 × 900 px
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