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Sashiye (name of a place in Edo)

Torii Kiyonaga

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A traditional Japanese woodblock print with a sepia-toned background. Five people are depicted. A woman kneels on the floor in the foreground on her knees. She wears a light orange kimono and a floral headpiece. A woman beside her to the left sits on a low platform wearing a dark kimono and a headpiece. Two women stand on the right; one wears a pink kimono and a large hat with a fan in her hand, the other wears a light-colored kimono. A man sits between the two seated women in a dark kimono. A lantern is on the left and a low table with bowls sits in front of the kneeling woman. The room has a shoji window behind the seated woman on the left. Japanese characters appear on the right edge and in the top right corner.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1782
Medium:
Right-hand sheet of a diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
422 × 625 px
Museum record:
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