Japanese Print "The Laundry" by Torii Kiyonaga
Artist:Torii Kiyonaga
Title:The Laundry
Date:1788
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Source:Honolulu Museum of Art
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Description:
The two women on the left are washing clothes beside a well, while the woman on the right is stretching cloth on tenterhooks. Washing and stretching clothes was one of the important chores of women. Although this is one sheet from a triptych, the compositional arrangement is fine even when looked at apart from the others. (Tadashi Kobayashi, Edo Beauties in Ukiyo-e, 19994)
