Title unknown [Woman with green and white fan]

A woman with a green and white fan — the fan's cool colors suggesting summer and the shade of an interior — holds the accessory in the posture of restrained feeling that characterizes the Yumeji bijin at her most composed. The fan in Yumeji's repertoire of accessories is among the most loaded: an object of display and concealment simultaneously, capable of expressing more with its angle and motion than words could articulate directly. The green and white suggests both freshness and reserve, a woman whose feeling is real but whose manner is controlled.