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Parody of an Imperial Carriage Scene

Kitagawa Utamaro

Cleveland Museum of Art

A woodblock print depicting three women. A woman stands on the left wearing a long beige robe with orange and white designs; she wears her black hair in a bun on top of her head with two long orange hairpins through it and looks down at two women on the floor. A woman on the right sits on the floor with her knees bent and tucked under her robe; she wears a black robe covered in a design of orange flowers and white and green leaves; she wears her hair in a bun on top of her head with an orange and black hair decoration on top and several long orange hairpins through it. A woman on the floor on her hands and knees in front of the woman on the right; she wears a short orange and white striped robe. A blooming tree with white flowers and orange and gray leaves arcs across the top. The background is beige.

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609 × 900 px
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