A Classical Poem

A woman with long black hair kneels in a doorway framed by grey sliding panels decorated with dark cloud-shaped medallions, wearing a white robe sashed with a large red bow and trailing black hair pooled on the floor beside her. She reaches toward a hanging blue-purple glass vessel holding a flowering branch, set against a mustard-yellow wall and pink-and-green striped curtain; a pink cartouche of vertical text appears at upper right. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "A Classical Poem," 1886, woodblock print.