Japanese Print "Woman Holding a Round Fan" by Kitagawa Utamaro
Artist:Kitagawa Utamaro
Title:Woman Holding a Round Fan
Date:about 1793
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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Description:
Half-length portrait of Ohisa of the Takashima-ya tea-house, who is shown facing toward the left and holding in her hands an uchiwa (round fan) that bears the trade-mark of the house. That trade-mark, a conventionalized tsuta (ivy) leaf, appears also, upon the shoulders and sleeves ofthe gauze kimono that she wears.
