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Woman of the Yoshiwara

Kitagawa Utamaro

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white woodblock print of a woman's head and torso wearing a kimono. The woman is viewed in a three-quarter perspective facing left. Her hair is styled upward and secured with sticks. She wears a green kimono with a circular pattern underneath a salmon-colored kimono. A black kimono with a white circular pattern is worn underneath. The background of the image is tan with East Asian text written vertically on both sides and horizontally on the top.

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640 × 900 px
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