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Beauty from Anei Era by Kobayashi Kiyochika — Japanese N/A, 1896

Beauty from Anei Era

by Kobayashi Kiyochika

Date:
1896
Medium:
N/A
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

A woman in the foreground holds an open red umbrella with radiating black spokes and a yellow-bordered canopy, her dark hair piled up with ornamental pins as she bites a corner of her indigo-and-white floral kimono collar. Behind her, three smaller figures in red and gray robes carry a pale yellow umbrella and pale round parasol along a plain grayish ground, with a rectangular title cartouche bearing Japanese text in the upper left corner. Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1896, "Beauty from Anei Era."

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Beauty from Anei Era was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親) in 1896.

Beauty from Anei Era depicts bijin-ga.