The Courtesans Nioteru, Namiji, and Omi of the Ogiya

Four women and a young attendant gather beneath a flowering cherry tree, its pink blossoms arching across the top of the composition against a plain cream ground. At right a seated figure in a black kimono patterned with white blossoms and a green-and-red obi turns toward a standing woman in a red kimono decorated with round medallions and black rinceau patterning; a smaller girl in purple and red stands between them holding a lacquered box, while a fourth woman in purple and mustard stands beside a green-curtained structure at far right. Vertical text and a red seal appear at upper left; this is the right sheet of an oban triptych, "The Courtesans Nioteru, Namiji, and Omi of the Ogiya," by Torii Kiyonaga, 1785.