

The image depicts two women in traditional Japanese clothing. The woman on the left wears a green kimono with orange and black designs on the sleeves and hem. Her kimono has an orange collar and she wears a headpiece with orange and black. She looks down at the other woman. The woman on the right kneels on a floor, wearing a brown and orange striped kimono. She looks down at an object in her hands. The background features a beige wall with a window covered by a beige and orange shutter. A tree branch is drawn on the wall. There are various objects on the floor. A white rectangle with vertical black Japanese characters is on the right side. Horizontal black lines are at the top.
Artwork Details
- Date
- ca. 1773
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Dimensions
- 471 × 624 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
You May Also Like

Window Opening Toward the Sea

Cooling off at Sashiye

Washing the Book

Kiyomizu Komachi from the series Little Seedlings: Seven Komachi

A Woman Snatching a Bag of Sweetmeats from Her MotHer

Three Women and a Small Boy beneath a Wisteria Arbor on the Bank of a Stream

Miyanoshita (Name of One of the Hot Springs at Hakone)

The Hour of the Snake (from the series A Clock for Young Women)

Group of Young Women on the Veranda of a Tea House

Drunk with Flowers

Evening Snow at Banto

The Evening Bell under the Watch-tower

The Second Bando Mitsugoro in the Role of Soga no Juro Sukenari

The Fourth Month (from the series Fashionable Monthly Visits to Temples in the Four Seasons)

The Hand Lantern

Preparing New Year Decorations

Sashiye (name of a place in Edo)

A Yoshiwara Analogue of the Story of Koko (Huang Xiang) one of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety

Scene on the Veranda of a Teahouse

Rikiya and Konami, from the series A Program with Music about Loving Couples (Ongyoku hiyoku no bangumi)

Scene in Nakasu, a District of Edo

Seru no Koku

Young Women Playing Kitsune-ken (Fox Game)

Chushingura: Act I of The Storehouse of Loyalty





