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Bride
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A hanging scroll featuring a painting depicting a female figure dressed as a bride. The figure is shown in profile from the waist up. She wears a pink kimono with a white fan design, over red and white under kimonos. The figure’s face is painted white and her gaze is downward. Over her black hair she wears a wide, white headdress known as a tsunokakushi. Gold pins in the shape of cranes and flowers are placed in her hair. The background is blank.
Department of Asian Art
[Kazuko Kato Tokyo Japan (by 1996)] sold; to Patricia Ann Salmon Hilo HI (1996-2022) and Julia Meech New York NY (1996-2025) sold; through [Scholten Japanese Art New York NY 2025]; to Harvard Art Museums 2025.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Title: Bride
Description:
A hanging scroll featuring a painting depicting a female figure dressed as a bride.
The figure is shown in profile from the waist up.
She wears a pink kimono with a white fan design, over red and white under kimonos.
The figure’s face is painted white and her gaze is downward.
Over her black hair she wears a wide, white headdress known as a tsunokakushi.
Gold pins in the shape of cranes and flowers are placed in her hair.
The background is blank.
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