Summer Geisha

A woman in profile faces left against a solid deep blue background, her large black hair styled in an elaborate looped bun ornamented with a green comb and a pale patterned hairpin. She wears a grey-and-white patterned kimono with a pink under-layer, one hand raised holding a folded fan with a bamboo-toned lower half and a painted design of green foliage and a red-and-white lattice motif. Her expression is composed and downcast, rendered in flat, smooth colour areas with fine linework in the hair and fan; the artist's seal and signature appear in the upper right. *Summer Geisha*, by Torii Kotondo, 1934, woodblock print.