Going Out — おでかけ

"Going Out" (おでかけ, odekake) depicts the moment of departure from the domestic interior — a woman or women preparing to leave the house, arranging themselves for the transition from private to public space. The odekake was a ritual of preparation as well as movement: the donning of appropriate outdoor clothing, the final adjustments of appearance, the specific bearing adopted for public life. Shuntei renders this threshold moment with his characteristic attention to the specific details of dress and preparation, the figure caught between the domestic world she leaves and the public world she enters.