Vapour

A close-up bust portrait of a woman with an elaborate black coiffure bound with a patterned orange and red hair ornament, her face and bare shoulders rendered in pale tones against a mottled blue-green ground that darkens to grey at the lower left. She looks downward with a subdued expression, a thin pale blue robe patterned with blue plum blossoms draped loosely off her shoulders and gathered at her chest, one shoulder and breast left uncovered. A red seal and a vertical line of Japanese characters appear in the upper right; a tan diagonal band crosses the lower right corner. Mokuhanga woodblock print titled "Vapour" by Torii Kotondo.