Flower Girl

A woman in a dark gray kimono with a patterned red, white, and blue obi balances a wide wooden tray of vegetables—bundled scallions, white radishes, and red produce—on her head, steadying it with her raised right hand. She wears a pale blue-and-white patterned head cloth, and her face is rendered with simplified, stylized features against a plain cream background. Flat blocks of color and bold outlines give the composition a graphic, modernist quality; a red artist's seal appears at lower right. Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print), Maekawa Senpan, "Flower Girl," year unknown.