Description:
Visual Description: This Japanese woodblock print depicts a woman in a kimono, a Japanese traditional attire. Her body is turned away from the viewer, although she glances back over her left shoulder. She stands on a red wooden pier on the Sumida River in Tokyo and wears a layered kimono with an outer robe in a muted green color with flower patterns on the hem, and a red innerwear. An obi sash features cloud-like designs in black, white, red, and gold. Her black hair is styled in an updo with a gold ornament kanzashi hairpin. Her feet are adorned with traditional elevated geta wooden sandals. Her right foot is slightly lifted, suggesting a movement towards the plain midground with a black sketched boat and three figures on board. A willow trunk bends in and out of the image, its branches drooping from above. The text in the top left reads in Japanese, “Fashionable Register of Good Style Dyed-Stuffs, Edo Purple.” (Mone Kawano '25)

Tags:
women; standing; kimonos; hairstyles; patterns; boats; water; fashion

Subjects:
patterns (design elements); Boats and boating; Fashion; Hairstyles; Kimonos; Standing position; Water; Women

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