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Women Watching a Girl Dance on Shells (From the series Fashionable Presentations of Three Horses)

Torii Kiyonaga

Cleveland Museum of Art

A group of six women wearing traditional Japanese kimonos and headpieces. The woman in the bottom right corner sits on her knees, playing a shamisen. The woman on the left side faces right and crouches on one knee. The four women on the right side are standing, leaning near each other and looking down to the right; one woman holds a closed parasol. The background is beige with Japanese text written vertically on the left side. The color palette includes orange, red, black, beige, and white.

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624 × 900 px
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