Two women standing, one holding an open book

A hanging scroll in color on silk shows two women in patterned kimono standing side by side against a plain tan ground. The woman on the left holds a round fan, while the woman on the right, in a dark robe with a white floral hem, holds an open sheet of paper.

Artist

Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政 (1739-1820)

Date

1615-1868

Medium

Color on silk

Source

Smithsonian (National Museum of Asian Art)

Size

661 × 1626 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art