A Girl with a Fan

A tall, narrow print showing a young woman standing in three-quarter view, turning her head to look back over her shoulder. She wears a pink kimono patterned with dark plaid lattice squares over a red under-robe with a pale swirling wave design, paired with an olive-green skirt printed with faint fern fronds; a pink and white patterned obi or sash trails loosely near her feet. Her black hair is piled high and pinned with ornaments, and she holds a round fan painted with a floral spray in her right hand; above her, part of a hanging red paper lantern and a blue curtain or banner decorated with a pale fern-leaf crest are visible at the top of the composition. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, "A Girl with a Fan," Chōbunsai Eishi, 1770.