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Beauties of the East

Kitao Shigemasa

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts two women. Both women have dark hair tied up with a gold and black headpiece. The woman on the left's hair is styled more loosely around her face. They wear traditional kimonos. The woman on the left's kimono is light brown with a black and orange collar, and an orange and blue patterned obi. The kimono of the woman on the right is light brown with a black obi. Her kimono has a design on the right side. The background is beige with vertical Japanese text on the left side.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1782
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
433 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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