The Twelfth Month

Ishikawa Toyomasa

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a traditional Japanese woodblock print. The print shows four women and one man, all wearing traditional Japanese clothing. The man is on a raised green platform in the background, wearing a red and black checkered kimono, white undergarment, and white socks. He is leaning down to pick up a red plate. The four women are on the lower level, three are wearing kimonos and one is wearing a white robe; two have green undergarments. The woman in the center wears a red kimono; the one on the right wears a black kimono with large pink circles. The woman on the far left bends at the knees. The background shows a snow-covered tree and ground. The right side shows a green patterned wall and a gray color palette with black numbers. Japanese characters are written vertically on the right side of the print.