
Beauty from Anei Era
- 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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Frequently Asked Questions
Beauty from Anei Era was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親) in 1896.
Beauty from Anei Era depicts bijin-ga.







