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Your galleryThree Women after a Bath, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"
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Compare the stripes and printed patterns of the three robes, then find the small scissors at the crouching woman’s foot.
Torii Kiyonaga designed this about 1783 or 1784 for a series the Art Institute translates as A Brocade of Eastern Manners. Three women have just bathed: one stands with her striped robe open, a second carries a towel and a folded robe, and a third crouches to trim her toenails with small scissors. Kiyonaga sets them against a plain ground, so the patterns of their robes carry the design.
Color woodblock print; oban · 37.3 × 24.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Three Women after a Bath, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"
- Artist
- Torii Kiyonaga Japanese, 1752-1815
- Date
- c. 1783/84
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 37.3 × 24.6 cm (14 11/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.