Pictures of Eastern Brocade (from the series Famous Products of Edo)

A single standing woman in an elaborate layered kimono dominates the composition, her patterned outer robe rendered in green, red, and pale blue-grey with a scattered butterfly motif on the trailing hem; she wears tall black lacquered geta and a large tortoiseshell hair ornament, one hand raised to her mouth as she looks down and to the side. To her right stands a black lantern post with hanging tassels beside a low wooden fence, and at upper left a framed cartouche shows a smaller inset print-shop scene above a black vertical title cartouche reading the series name. Muted earth-toned background, fine black outline work, and predominantly cool greens and warm reds characterize this 1820 color woodblock print by Keisai Eisen from the series "Famous Products of Edo."