Untitled (uemura-shoen)

This woodblock print by Uemura Shōen shows a single young woman walking in left profile against a bare tan ground with no background scenery, her pale face topped by an elaborate upswept rose-pink coiffure held with combs and a cord. She wears a coral-orange kimono patterned at the hem and sleeve lining with pink, purple, and mustard-yellow floral bursts and green striped leaves, cinched with a blue-green obi patterned in orange flowers, and carries a round yellow ribbed object at her hip above white tabi and geta sandals. A red seal and a column of black characters appear at lower left, and the sheet is mounted as a hanging scroll with tan silk borders, a sage-green fabric surround, and a brocade band framing the image.