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Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gonpachi

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts a traditional Japanese woodblock print of two women. A woman in a black kimono with thin stripes holds a katana with a patterned scabbard in her right hand. Her dark hair is pulled back into a bun on top of her head. She faces right, her head turned to look back over her right shoulder. A woman wearing a pink kimono and a large black and gold hairstyle sits behind the first woman on the right, leaning towards her. The woman's face is obscured by her hairstyle. A white border surrounds the print on all sides. In the upper-left corner of the print, there are six lines of Japanese characters. The background of the print is a light brown color.

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502 × 900 px
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