Summer Bijin (1)

The print (mounted as a hanging scroll with brocade borders) shows a young woman kneeling in three-quarter view from behind, dark hair swept into a high knot with an ornamental comb, her head turned upward and to the right against a plain cream ground. She wears a pale blue checked outer robe over a cream kimono patterned with slender green and brown floral vines and pink blossoms, cinched with a multicolored geometric obi, with a red underlayer showing at the hem, and a leafy green branch and low railing appear behind her. In the foreground sits a blue palette daubed with red-orange and white pigment and a brush, beside a red seal and signature — this is "Summer Bijin (1)" by Uemura Shoen, woodblock print, year unknown.