Rouge- lipstick — Beni

A woman in profile applies lipstick with her fingertip, holding a small red-lined bowl of rouge just below her chin. Her hair is dressed in a large black chignon with a red comb ornament, and her pale face is shown against a mottled grey background; a red-and-white patterned robe layers over a plain dark red kimono at her shoulder. Torii Kotondo's 1932 woodblock print "Rouge — Beni" isolates the single half-length figure close to the picture plane, in muted reds, black, white, and grey.