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The Hour of the Snake (from the series A Clock for Young Women)

c. 1796

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
color woodblock print
Measurements
Sheet: 36.2 x 23.2 cm (14 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.345
Public Domain
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Not on view
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There are embossed outlines on the women's faces.
A vertically oriented color woodblock print depicts two women with light skin tones. On our right, a woman stands in a brown and green robe, hair in a bun with a long pin. She gazes at a black circular mirror held by a woman seated on our left, who wears a patterned brown robe. Japanese calligraphy is inscribed in a rectangular box at the top left and along the right edge.

The Hour of the Snake (from the series A Clock for Young Women)

c. 1796

Kitagawa Utamaro

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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