Spring make-up

A young woman, shown in profile facing left with white-powdered skin and bright red lips, wears an elaborate black coiffure ornamented with a large cluster of white chrysanthemum-shaped hairpins interspersed with small blue, green, and pink paper-crane motifs; rows of dangling green triangular ornaments hang from the arrangement down past her neck. She wears a pale blue kimono patterned with white flowers, gold pine sprays, and striped sections, set against a solid mauve-purple background with a red seal at right and the title characters printed along the bottom edge. Kato Shinmei, "Spring make-up," mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print), year unknown.