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A Lady from a Samurai Household with Three Attendants, from the series A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fūzoku Azuma no nishiki)

Torii Kiyonaga

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a group of four women in traditional Japanese clothing. The woman on the left wears a brown kimono with a floral pattern and a hat. Next to her, a woman in a yellow kimono with a red floral patterned obi stands under a gray parasol. A third woman, wearing a light-brown kimono, partially obscured by the parasol and the central woman, faces right. On the right side, a woman in a black and white kimono with a black obi and a black hat faces left. The background of the image is a light beige color. Vertical black Japanese characters appear on the right side.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
425 × 625 px
Museum record:
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