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Tokaido gojusan tsui
(Japan and Korea )
Dressed in elaborate cotton kimonos, two girls appear a bit over-dressed for the task at hand. Beneath their tie-dyed head coverings, they each sport hairstyles of the highest urban fashion. These are elegant urban women costumed to play the roles of tea plantation workers in the famed Fuchu region. Hiroshige is presenting his urban patrons with a fantasy that appeals both to their sense of fashion and to their love of fine tea.
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Provenance
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C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in. (36 x 25 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
95.562