The Samurai (Shi) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)

Two women are shown in an interior, one standing and one kneeling. The standing figure wears a grey kimono patterned with small crests over wide orange-and-white striped hakama, with a sword tucked at her waist, and reaches to take or hand an ornate red-and-black patterned object to her companion. The kneeling woman, dressed in a grey floral kimono with a pink underlayer, tilts her head toward the exchange; behind them a flowering plum branch arcs across a cream ground beside an orange screen and a section of patterned wallpaper with birds. Torii Kiyonaga, "The Samurai (Shi)" from the series *Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)*, 1774, color woodblock print (koban).