Ikio

A woman with an elaborately dressed dark chignon is seated, seen from behind and in profile, raising a comb to her hairline with one hand while her downcast eyes and slightly parted lips give her face a quiet, absorbed expression. She wears a pale cream kimono patterned with grey and black crosses, its collar edged in red, over a wide obi in dark blue and grey with a leaf motif, tied in a large bow at her back; a plain grey-beige ground and a floor edge at lower left complete the setting. "Ikio," a woodblock print by Shimura Tatsumi (date unknown), bears the artist's carved seal and characters at right along with a numbered edition mark (48/300).