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A Beauty

Chōkōsai Eishō

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a woman with dark hair styled up, adorned with a tan headpiece and tan sticks protruding from it. She wears a pink kimono with green and white patterns. The woman holds a pink and green hand fan in her right hand. The background is gray with vertical black Japanese text on either side.

Artwork details

Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
444 × 625 px
Museum record:
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