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A Practical Joke

Torii Kiyonaga

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The woodblock print depicts three women. Two women stand and one kneels. The kneeling woman wears a black kimono with yellow and black striped obi; she looks down at a low table with a teapot. The standing woman in the center wears a pink kimono with white and black dotted pattern; her kimono wraps around her body with the right side over the left. The woman on the right wears a pink kimono with a light floral pattern; her kimono wraps left over right. All three women wear their hair in the same style with a black hat and gold headband. A sliding door with thin vertical wood and woven paper is to the left. The background is a muted beige color.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1782
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
428 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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