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Courtesan on the Town with Attendants at Night

Kubo Shunman

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Japanese woodblock print depicts a man and two women. The man on the left wears a gray kimono with a black sash and sits next to a large cylindrical object covered with a black cloth featuring white designs. His head is bowed towards the object. The woman in the middle wears a kimono with orange, white and green designs with a yellow hairpiece. She holds a folded brown cloth. A smaller woman stands to her right and wears a dark kimono and a white hairpiece. A woman on the right wears a kimono with orange, yellow and blue designs and a green under kimono. Her kimono features dragons and fans. She has a yellow hairpiece. The background is beige with some Japanese characters on the right edge.

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Dimensions:
701 × 900 px
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