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Rejected Geisha from Passions Cooled by Springtime Snow

Keisai Eisen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a woman with a white face and red lips, looking down and to the right. The woman has black hair styled up with a gold hairpin on the left side. Her eyebrows are black and arched. She wears a traditional Japanese kimono with a red and green design and a beige top layer with a leaf pattern. The background behind her hair is brown with gold streaks and a circular design in the top-right corner. The image is framed by a brown border with a double line.

Artwork details

Date:
1824
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
455 × 624 px
Museum record:
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