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A Woman Kneeling

Chōkōsai Eishō

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman wearing a kimono and a hat is kneeling on a patterned fabric. The woman faces right. She wears a kimono with a pattern of white flowers on a black background on top and a mosaic-like pattern on the bottom. A plain kimono is over her shoulders. Her hair is pulled back and she wears two long hairpins. There is a signature in Japanese characters in the bottom-right corner. The background is plain beige.

Artwork details

Medium:
Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
441 × 625 px
Museum record:
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