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Irohanihoheto by Sentaro Iwata — Japanese Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Irohanihoheto

by Sentaro Iwata

Medium:
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Image courtesy of
Saru Gallery

Description

A woman in half-length profile turns her head toward the viewer with a downward, half-lidded gaze, her long black hair falling loose past her waist and gathered at the crown with an ornate gold comb. She wears a pale cream kimono inscribed with large gold hiragana characters and bound by a wide red obi patterned with a gold swirling motif and trimmed in a striped indigo, orange, and green band, set against a mottled gold-and-olive ground with a small red seal in the upper right. This woodblock print (mokuhanga) by Sentaro Iwata is titled *Irohanihoheto*; date unknown.

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Irohanihoheto was created by Sentaro Iwata (岩田専太郎).