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- Utagawa Kuninao
1795–1854
born: Shinano province (present-day Nagano prefecture), Japan ; active: Japan
- court lady with casks of poem shells, circa 1820s, Edo period (1600–1868)
- Bijin awase (Beautiful Women)
- Where object was made: Japan
- color woodcut
- Mat Dimensions: 19 x 14 in
- William Bridges Thayer Memorial
- Not on display
- 0000.1490
- Utagawa Kuninao
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Description
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Color print of a woman seated in front of two green casks with pink floral decoration around the sides. The woman is wearing a long, white and orange robe, and her hair is falling down behind her shoulders. There is a gray screen and printed, multi-colored curtain behind the woman, in the right side of the image. There is calligraphy in the left side of the print. Poem by Hōrai Sanjin.