Young Woman with Umbrella and Young Man Carrying Luggage

Young Woman with Umbrella and Young Man Carrying Luggage is a genre composition by the Edo [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) designer Kitao Masanobu (1761–1816), held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (sc147339) and recorded on ukiyo-e.org. The pairing of an elegantly dressed beauty with a male attendant or porter is a familiar subject in late-eighteenth-century bijinga, and Masanobu deploys it here to balance the verticality of the woman's body, the diagonal of her umbrella, and the heavy mass of the young man's bundle.

The scene reads as travel or daily errand: a young woman steps out under a parasol or oiled-paper umbrella while a male attendant — likely a servant or hired porter — carries the wrapped luggage that accompanies her journey. The umbrella itself is a graphic gift to a designer of Masanobu's temperament. It opens a strong shape against the empty paper, frames the woman's head and shoulders, and contributes a single bold motif to a composition otherwise built on costume patterns and figure outline.