New Cotton Kimono

A close-up half-length portrait of a woman with an elaborate black upswept coiffure held by a tortoiseshell comb and a small floral hair ornament, her bare shoulders and chest exposed as a deep-blue kimono patterned with white and pale-blue chrysanthemums and a lattice motif slips down around her arms. She gazes downward with a soft, contemplative expression against a plain grey-green background, her hands gathering the fabric at her waist. *New Cotton Kimono*, a Japanese color woodblock print on handmade paper by Ito Shinsui, 1929.