Looking as if she is waking up: the appearance of a maiden in the Koka era

A young woman with elaborately dressed black hair, held with a red-and-white patterned band and a pale comb, leans forward and bites down on a folded blue cloth or tenugui held in her raised right hand, her kimono slipping off one bare shoulder to reveal red inner robing beneath a navy-and-white patterned outer garment. She is set against a plain warm-grey ground beside a potted morning-glory vine with pink, white, and dark-blue blossoms, with vertical cartouches of Japanese text and a red artist's seal at upper right and left. The palette is limited to indigo, white, muted flesh tones, and small accents of red, with the composition cropped tightly around the half-length figure.