A woman with black hair pulled back into a bun, adorned with two long, thin wooden sticks and a white ribbon; she wears a green and gold checkered kimono; her face is angled down and to the left, with a portion of a red flower visible on her chest; the background is beige with some Japanese writing on the left. A Courtesan by Kitagawa Utamaro.
Artwork Details
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Dimensions
- 417 × 624 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
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