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'Insurance girl' (hoken musume), illustration from Bugei Kurabu (Literary Club)

Tomioka Eisen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman with black hair, styled in an updo, wearing traditional Japanese clothing with a gray kimono featuring a pattern. The kimono has red and blue accents. She is leaning forward, eyes closed. A pink fan is in her left hand. Japanese characters are in the upper right. The background is beige with streaks of orange and gray. A dark gray border surrounds the woman.

Artwork Details

Medium
Frontispiece; woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
600 × 478 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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