Nails (three in series)

A woman with an elaborate black coiffure sits in a red kimono patterned with pale pink and blue blossoms, worn over a blue under-robe and a black-and-white checked obi. She is bent forward, one bare foot drawn up into her lap, trimming or tending to her toenails with a small implement held in both hands, her head tilted down in concentration against a plain grey background. This woodblock print, "Nails (three in series)" by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi, 1930, bears Japanese text and a red seal in the upper right.