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The Lovers Miura-ya Komurasaki and Shirai Gonpachi.

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a woodblock print of two women. The woman on the left wears a striped kimono in shades of red and brown. She has a black obi and her hair is styled in a half-up bun. The woman on the right wears a black kimono with a salmon-colored under kimono with white flowers. She has a large, round, flat hat on her head which is decorated with thin, light-colored sticks. The background of the print is a light beige color. There is Japanese text written vertically and horizontally throughout the image. The print is framed by a thin white border.

Artwork details

Date:
probably 1797
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
406 × 625 px
Museum record:
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