Two Beauties Dressed as Komuso Priests (Komuso sugata no ni bijin)

Two women in elaborate kimono stand side by side, each carrying an oversized woven straw hat (sedge hat) rather than wearing it, in place of the deep basket hats traditionally worn by komuso priests. The foreground figure wears a black outer robe over a red-and-gold patterned underlayer with a floral obi, hair swept up with combs and pins; the second figure behind wears a white robe with a coral-pink sash and patterned obi, also with an elaborate coiffure. Rendered in flat black, coral-red, gold, and lavender against a plain cream ground, with columns of Japanese text at right and left; the piece is titled "Two Beauties Dressed as Komuso Priests (Komuso sugata no ni bijin)," by Kitagawa Utamaro, a woodblock print of unknown date.