Preparing Fish

A tall, narrow hashira-e print showing two women in a domestic interior against a plain golden-tan ground. The standing woman, in a grey outer robe over an orange-and-white patterned underrobe, raises one hand to her hair while looking down at her seated companion, who wears a grey robe patterned with a basket-weave motif and bends over a low wooden tub and square wooden container on the floor, apparently preparing fish. A column of vertical Japanese text runs down the upper right corner; a round red seal appears at the lower right. Katsukawa Shunchō, 1775, color woodblock print (hashira-e).