A Garden Refreshed by the Passing Rain (Ukasentei no zu)
Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu Japanese
Not on view
The empress and her ladies-in-waiting wear bonnets and dresses adapted from chromolithographs from European fashion magazines. In this and similar prints, if there is no caption, it is sometimes difficult to immediately distinguish who among the equally elegant female figures in satin and velvet is the empress. Usually, she may be identified by the imperial chrysanthemum or paulownia on her dress, or by a bonnet enlivened with red and white.
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